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# Count the number of files in current dir
alias lsc='ls -l | wc -l'

# Sort directories by sizes
alias dush='du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -h'

# Can't see all the files in one page ? 
alias lsless='ls | less'

# Make a video capture of the desktop
alias capturedesktop='avconv -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1900x1000 -i :0.0+0,24 -vcodec libx264  -threads 0'

# Capture desktop, with sound
alias capturedesktop_withsound='avconv -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1900x1000 -i :0.0+0,24 -vcodec libx264  -threads 0 -f alsa -i hw:0 '

# pastebin from the command line, use it like this : 
# somecommand | some pipe work | pastebin
alias pastebin='curl -F "clbin=<-" "https://clbin.com"'

# Only print actual code/configuration
alias removeblanks="egrep -v '(^[[:space:]]*#|^$|^[[:space:]]*//)'"

# Useful when you want to scp to your own machine from a remote server
alias myip='ifdata -pa eth1'

Some useful functions too

function timedelta {
    d1=$1
    d2=$2
    echo $(( ($(date +%s -d $d1) - $(date +%s -d $d2)) / (60 * 60 * 24) ))
}
#ychaouche@ychaouche-PC 16:33:12 ~/TMP/NETWORK $ timedelta 2016-12-26 2014-11-16
#771
#ychaouche@ychaouche-PC 16:33:42 ~/TMP/NETWORK $ 
#It's been 771 days since I work in this place.

# Searches inside PDF files
# searchpdf "term" file1 file2 file3...
function searchpdf {
    term="$1"
    shift 1
    for file in $@
    do 
	echo ============================ 
	echo $file 
	echo ============================ 
	pdftotext "$file" - | grep "$term"
    done
}

# Converts any video to a gif and compresses it.

function vid2gif () {
    video=$1
    name=${video%.*}
    gif="$name".gif
    echo avconv -i "$video" -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 5 -f gif "$gif"-
    avconv -i "$video" -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 5 -f gif "$gif"-
    echo gifsicle -O3 -U "$gif"- -o "$gif"
    gifsicle -O3 -U "$gif"- -o "$gif"
}

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