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Handy cli stuff
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Handy cli stuff

Generate password (install pwgen first)

pwgen -Cs 20 1 | tr -d ' ' | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy

Moving around

Erase word

ctrl-w

Erase from here to beginning of the line

ctrl-u

Move the cursor to the beginning of the line

ctrl-a

Move cursor to the end of the line

ctrl-e

Recursive find and replace

find . -type f -name '*.html' -exec sed -i '' 's/pattern\/to\/find/pattern\/replacement/' {} +

Convert file to UTF-8 encoding

iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < file > file.new

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