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Rename files in batch

List all PostgreSQL databases. Useful when doing backups

Make directories for and mount all iso files in a folder

See OpenVZ Container id's of top 10 running processes by %cpu
This command will list the PID, VEID, and Name of the 10 highest cpu using processes on a openvz host. You must have vzpid installed.

Find the package that installed a command

Send a binary file as an attachment to an email
The uuencode utility will encode your file so that it can be sent as an attachment to an email. It is part of the sharutils package in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora.

Validating a file with checksum

bash: hotkey to put current commandline to text-editor
* in bash-shell You can capture the current commandline to a text-editor: * simply press: CTRL+x+e * Your current commandline will pe put into Your default text-editor (export EDITOR=vim)

Check the current price of Bitcoin in USD

Remove a line in a text file. Useful to fix "ssh host key change" warnings


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