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# Unix Home Configuration
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## Author: P. Neidhardt
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### 2013-12-10
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Description
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===========
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This repository contains scripts and configuration files for various Unix
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programs. It targets Arch Linux and FreeBSD, but since these are "fundamental"
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Unix distributions, it might work for most other Unices as well. I tried hard to
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maintain universality: it should work anywhere (whatever the versions of the
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programs are installed) with as few modifications as possible.
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Most interesting parts include advanced configuration for Emacs, Mutt, and some
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interesting shell scripts like a video transcoding wrapper using FFmpeg.
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Awesome
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=======
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* Extra deps: Vicious (Linux only)
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Configuration is very close to the default one, which mostly fits my needs.
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Most of the work I've done is for the status bar: dynamic network speed (it
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checks for different interfaces), CPU speed, dynamic battery that will not show
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up if no battery is detected, and sound volume. But since I'm using the
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Vicious plugin, it is quite straightforward.
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This configuration is for now very version-sensitive, so you should make sure to
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use latest build.
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dwb
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Some custom options, download location, search engines, plugins, etc.
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Emacs
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=====
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* Extra deps
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* recommended: emacs-multiple-cursors emacs-xclip emacs-yasnippet
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* optional: emacs-bison-mode emacs-flex-mode emacs-glsl-mode emacs-lua-mode
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emacs-make-regexp emacs-mediawiki-bzr
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Emacs daemon is integrated flawlessly thanks to a small script -- see the scripts folder.
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Because terminal and graphical clients do not behave the same way, it is
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sometimes useful to specify which version should be used. For mutt, ranger
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bulkrename, git commit message and dwb, it is required to wait for the client to
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return, for which only the console client will work properly.
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Configuration for C programming. Bindings to compile either from makefile or
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from a custom command if no makefile is found.
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TeX and LaTeX full-featured home made environment: no AucTeX required, itemize
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function, snippets,
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dynamic compilation with various engines, dynamic configuration, proper PDF
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view, temp files clean function, PDF compression, SyncTeX support.
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Custom theme with 256 colors, works for both text and graphical Emacs.
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Extended file support (shell files, Mutt mails, Arch Linux PKGBUILDs).
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Some customization: columns, kill whole line, org-mode, semantic, etc.
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Some custom functions: duplicate line, unfill-paragraph, etc.
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A lot of code snippets, especially for C and LaTeX (document templates, plot
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generation, pie chart generation, and others).
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Mutt
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* Compile options: IMAP and SMTP support.
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* Patch: sidebar.
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* Extra deps: antiword, ccrypt, fortune, sxiv, w3m.
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This one is not easy to get into it. I managed to get multiple accounts with
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encrypted passwords working, which means there is no plain password stored on
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the disk. As a result, I just get prompted for a main password on Mutt startup,
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then everything works out of the box. I use ccrypt for password management
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because it is much simpler than gnupg.
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I'm using embedded IMAP and SMTP services which need appropriate compilation
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options.
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Some customization: custom index view, good Emacs integration (see .emacs),
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custom theme (matches Emacs colors), various tweaks.
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Thanks to the colorset.sh script, Mutt will check terminal color support and
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load colors appropriately. Therefore this configuration should work on any
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terminal, should it have 256-colors support or not.
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URxvt has an URL support that works also for Mutt. For other terminals, you
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might consider using the 'urlview' plugin for Mutt.
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Ranger
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* Extra deps: antiword, atool, highlight, img2txt, mediainfo, odt2txt, pdftotext,
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unrtf, w3m.
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Custom bindings, file association, tweaked a few options, additional functions
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(mkcd, extracthere...).
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Scripts
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Probably the most interesting part here.
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*clean: remove junk files from TeX projects, home folder, etc.
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abs-wrapper: helper script to compile pacman-based packages (using
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makepkg). Using this you can recompile the whole system.
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archive: simple tar wrapper to create archive for files and folders.
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asciify: convert many non-ASCII characters to their nearest ASCII counterpart.
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crun: quick way to execute C files.
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ediff: diff with Emacs.
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formatc: wrapper for 'indent' to prettify C source code.
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homeinit: initialize a new home configuration, i.e. get needed files, create
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symlinks, etc.
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netinit: network setup. Works with wpa_supplicant. May replace any network
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manager.
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pacman-*: a lot of handy functions for the pacman package manager, like sorting
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by size with grand total, file listing with size, etc.
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pdf*: PDF manipulation, e.g. extract pages, compress, resize to A4.
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pkggen: generate lists of installed with pacman, FreeBSD's pkg and tlmgr (TeX
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Live manager).
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tc-video-*: batch conversion of any kind of videos. Using FFmpeg.
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translate: a translation frontend to Internet services. Default to stdin and
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stdout (the Unix way), thus usable from your favorite text editor.
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Shell
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* Target: POSIX shell, dash, zsh
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A lot of stuff: aliases, functions, shell options, etc.
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Please note that this config is mainly intended -- and tested -- for zsh. I
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removed bash support since it is really a scourge to shell scripting. However
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most of the scripts and the shell configuration are POSIX shell compatible
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(tested with dash).
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TeX
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Plain TeX macros, most importantly a partial UTF-8 support (taken from LaTeX).
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A lot of LaTeX macros. Among others: pie charts, dynamic plots with
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input file and trend.
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Plain TeX macros are in the '.texmf' folder. LaTeX macros are all bundled into
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Emacs snippets so that .tex documents do not rely on any external file.
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URxvt
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* Extra deps: Muennich's perl extensions (keyboard-select, clipboard, url-matcher)
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Custom font and colors, no scroll bar, url-matcher, clipboard, and
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keyboard-select.
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Usage
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The only purpose is to be a source of inspiration. Examples are always a good
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technical support. (Especially for applications that do not provide examples in
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their documentation.) There is no use in blind-copying the content of any file
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into your personal home folder. At best it might break things.
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In case you still want to copy some files -- for quick and dirty testing purpose
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-- do not forget that most of the files are in hidden folders. Also note that
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in some shells, the '*' joker will NOT match hidden files, that is
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cp -r source-dir/* dest-dir/
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will copy non-hidden folders only. To match all folders, use the following
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joker instead:
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cp -r source-dir/{.*,*} dest-dir/ # zsh
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cp -r source-dir/{.??*,*} dest-dir/ # bash
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Still, the solution for bash is not perfect as it affects 3 characters files
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only. A more convenient solution:
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# bash only.
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shopt -s dotglob
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cp -r source-dir/* dest-dir/
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Versioning
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Git makes it possible to use your home folder as a git repo, thus versioning
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all files directly. To do so:
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cd
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git init
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git remote add origin <repo>
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git fetch
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git branch master origin/master
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git checkout master
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Some applications will need extra dependencies other than the default ones. You
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might have a look at the lists in the .pkg/ folder to know what software I've
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been using.
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Known issues
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============
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Emacs
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* When linum is on in very large files (5000+ lines), beginning-of-buffer is
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extremly slow when called from a shortcut, but not when called from the
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command mini-buffer.
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* xclip mode will sometimes prevent yanking from working properly.
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Scripts
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* All scripts take a strong point at being POSIX. However, there is no POSIX way
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(at least to my knowledge) to execute a shell function on the result of a
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'find'. Neither 'find' nor 'xargs' can execute shell functions. One solution
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to this would be to call an external script, but then we lose all global
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variables. For now we assume no input file has newline, which is quite a
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strong assumption and not safe at all.
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URxvt
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* Using the paste function from Muennich's clipboard on the same terminal where
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text was copied will make it hang (and crash).
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* There is a bug with Xft anti-aliased font that prevent w3m image preview from
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working (too bad for ranger).
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Noteworthy apps
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===============
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* aalib
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* abook
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* aircrack-ng
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* antiword
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* apvlv
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* asciidoc
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* astyle
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* atool
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* awesome
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* awk
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* bashmount
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* bc
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* cabextract
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* cal
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* calc
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* catdvi
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* ccrypt
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* cdrkit
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* cdrtools
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* centerim
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* chrpath
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* cmus
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* column
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* comm
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* cppcheck
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* cut
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* dash
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* dcraw
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* diff
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* dosbox
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* doxygen
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* driconf
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* dtach
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* dvtm
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* dwb
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* ecryptfs
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* ecryptfs-simple
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* emacs
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* encfs
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* fbpdf
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* fbv
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* fdisk
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* feh
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* ffmpeg
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* file
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* finch
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* fmt
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* fortune
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* gaupol
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* gcolor2
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* gdb
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* gimp
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* gnuplot
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* gparted
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* graphicsmagick
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* graphviz
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* grep
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* grip
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* groff
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* gtypist
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* guile
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* hdparm
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* highlight
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* htop
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* id3v2
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* imagemagick
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* indent
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* inkscape
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* iotop
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* irssi
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* latex2html
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* latex2rtf
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* lrzip
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* lsb-release
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* lshw
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* ltrace
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* lua
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* luakit
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* mediainfo
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* mkfs
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* mkvtoolnix
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* mplayer2
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* mpv
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* mutt
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* nasm
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* nawk
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* ncdu
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* nethogs
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* newsbeuter
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* ngrep
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* nmap
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* numlockx
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* octave
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* od
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* odt2txt
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* okular
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* openshot
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* openssh
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* p7zip
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* parallel
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* pari
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* parted
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* patch
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* poppler
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* pstotext
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* pwgen
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* qemu
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* ranger
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* re2c
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* rsync
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* rtorrent
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* rxvt-unicode
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* scrot
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* sdlmame
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* sdparm
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* sed
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* shred
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* slock
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* sort
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* splint
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* strace
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* subdl
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* submarine
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* sudo
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* surfraw
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* sxiv
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* sxlock
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* syslinux
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* task
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* tcc
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* tcpdump
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* texi2html
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* texinfo
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* texlive
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* textadept
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* tig
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* trash-cli
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* tree
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* udiskie
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* unrtf
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* unshield
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* upx
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* valgrind
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* vim
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* vlock
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* vsftpd
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* w3m
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* weechat
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* wipe
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* wireshark
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* wmfs
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* wv
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* x264
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* xchm
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* xclip
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* xlockmore
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* xosd
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* yasm
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* youtube-dl
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* zathura
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* zsh
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