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Find directories over 50MB in the home directory

automatically ditch old versions in a conflict
This is not exactly a commandline, but a vim macro to automatically ditch the "old" version of a conflict when dealing with the naster

Find the package that installed a command

Replace the content of an XML element
Replaces "650" with "999" in simple.xml. xml used - http://www.w3schools.com/xml/simple.xml

Sysadmin day date of any given year
Calculate the date of Sysadmin day (last Friday of July) of any given year

Generate MD5 of string and output only the hash checksum in a readable format
Generates the md5 hash, without the trailing " -" and with the output "broken" into pairs of hexs.

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"

Colorized JSON pretty printing
Uses pygmentize and python to create indented and colorized JSON output

check web server port 80 response header

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


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