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eth-tool summary of eth# devices
Give the Speed and Link status of eth# 0-3. This is sort of what mii-tool does, but eth-tool is better, yet lacks device discovery.

Synchronize date and time with a server over ssh
Set Remote Server Date using Local Server Time (push)

syncronizing datas beetween two folder (A and B) excluding some directories in A (dir1 and dir2)

check open ports without netstat or lsof

invoke MATLAB functions from command line
`-r script.m` also possible

Exclude inserting a table from a sql import
Starting with a large MySQL dump file (*.sql) remove any lines that have inserts for the specified table. Sometimes one or two tables are very large and uneeded, eg. log tables. To exclude multiple tables you can get fancy with sed, or just run the command again on subsequently generated files.

Replace strings in text
-e is the script function, it performs search and replace like vi, and -i is the edit the file in place.

Show me just the ip address
Sometimes it's useful to output just the ip address. Or some other information, changing the "ipv4.addresses" in command. The power of awk! Show all possible "greps" with $ nmcli connection show [yourInterfaceNameHere]

exec chmod to subfiles
Using `-exec cmd {} +` causes find to build the command using all matching filenames before execution, rather than once per file.

convert .bin / .cue into .iso image
bchunk [-v] [-p] [-r] [-w] [-s]


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