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find out which directory uses most inodes - list total sum of directoryname existing on filesystem

ls not pattern
I've been looking for a way to do this for a while, get a not pattern for shell globs. This works, I'm using to grab logs from a remote server via scp.

Quick access to the ascii table.

Move all but the newest 100 emails to a gzipped archive

ram usage most top 10 process

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

detect partitions
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Create a video screencast of any x11 window, with audio
The script gets the dimensions and position of a window and calls ffmpeg to record audio and video of that window. It saves it to a file named output.mkv

get all Amazon cloud (amazonws etc) ipv4 subnets


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