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Below, we've listed a few problems and their awesome command line solutions. If you know of a more efficient solution, please share in the comments. Otherwise, we'd love to hear how you or your team solve problems with UNIX and the command line.

• Files

• What size are these images?

• What files recently changed?

• How many lines are in this data dump?

• How do you bulk change filenames?

• How do you quickly copy files to a remote server?

• How do you create a graph of relative file sizes?

• Directories

• How do you summarize a directories' files?

• Which directory has the most files?

• How do you delete a directory with many files?

• CSVs

• How do you filter a CSV file by a column value?

• In a CSV file, what are the column names and their indices?

• How do you count the occurrences of a value in a CSV file column?

• Systems

• What is my system's resource usage and availability?

• How do you easily manage Python virtual environments?

• Productivity

• How do you remember all these commands?

• How do you quickly access your projects?

• Can you be notified upon long-running command completion?

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