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Monitor ElasticSearch cluster health - Useful for keeping an eye on ES when rebalancing takes place

Print one . instead of each line
If you're running a command with a lot of output, this serves as a simple progress indicator. This avoids the need to use `/dev/null` for silencing. It works for any command that outputs lines, updates live (`fflush` avoids buffering), and is simple to understand.

Find the package that installed a command

currently mounted filesystems in nice layout
Particularly useful if you're mounting different drives, using the following command will allow you to see all the filesystems currently mounted on your computer and their respective specs with the added benefit of nice formatting.

Show every subdirectory (zsh)

Write on the console without being registered
http://www.linux-party.com/index.php/8157-escribir-en-la-consola-linux-sin-que-quede-registrado-en-el-history

Fork Bomb for Windows
Quick and dirty forkbomb for all flavors of windows Do not use in production. Replace start with a command of your choice, this will just open a new command prompt and is pretty tricky to stop once started

Get all files of particular type (say, PDF) listed on some wegpage (say, example.com)
See man wget if you want linked files and not only those hosted on the website.

generate random password
for Mac OS X

Show 'Hardware path'-style tree of all devices in Linux


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