Translate Shell (formerly Google Translate CLI) is a command-line translator powered by Google Translate (default), Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate and Apertium. It gives you easy access to one of these translation engines in your terminal.
Git Branch Operations
From here.
Make Ubuntu 18.04 Look More Like Mac
The original solution was verified on Ubuntu 17.10. However it’s also verified on Ubuntu 18.04 after the 18.04 version is released.
Hope the following things work on the next LTS version “18.04”(Confirmed on 2018-05-14: all the instructions work on Ubuntu 18.04).
Setup Chinese Input Method in Ubuntu 18.04
The original solution was verified on Ubuntu 17.10. However it’s also verified on Ubuntu 18.04 after the 18.04 version is released.
Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark is just released. A big change in this release is that it ditches Unity for Gnome. Most likely this will be part of the next LTS version “18.04”(Confirmed on 2018-05-14, the solution below also works on Ubuntu 18.04).
A Video Downloader: you-get
Linux equivalent of the Mac OSX “open” command
In Mac OSX, you can use the “open” command to open almost all kinds of files which equals to double-click the file icon in GUI. Is there an equivalent thing in Linux?
Git Large File Storage
Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.
Sublime Text
Now Sublime Text 3 supports official “apt” source installation. From here.
Export Web Page to PDF with Headless Google Chrome
Headless browsers provide automated control of a web page in an environment similar to popular web browsers, but are executed via a command-line interface or using network communication. They are particularly useful for testing web pages as they are able to render and understand HTML the same way a browser would, including styling elements such as page layout, colour, font selection and execution of JavaScript and AJAX which are usually not available when using other testing methods.
Login Shell & Non Login Shell
In “gnome-terminal” profile, there is an option “Run command as a login shell”. You can enable/disable it. But what is the difference?