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list all file extensions in a directory
... plus do a sort according frequency

Prepend a text to a file.
Prepend text to a file. It doen't need temporary files, ed or sed.

Bitcoin prices from the command line

Complete TCP Handshake on a given host-port
Try to perform a fully TCP 3 way handshake on for a given host-port with a timeout of 1s.

Make sure a script is run in a terminal.
Exit with error if script is not run in a terminal

Get MD5 checksum from a pipe stream and do not alter it

Display the standard deviation of a column of numbers with awk

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

Print Memory Utilization Percentage For a specific process and it's children
Change the name of the process and what is echoed to suit your needs. The brackets around the h in the grep statement cause grep to skip over "grep httpd", it is the equivalent of grep -v grep although more elegant.

Create a new file


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