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Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Testing php configuration

Oneliner to get domain names list of all existing domain names (from wikipedia)
Quietly get a webpage from wikipedia: curl -s By default, don't output anything: sed -n Search for interesting lines: /<tr valign="top">/ With the matching lines: {} Search and replace any html tags: s/<[^>]*>//g Finally print the result: p

interactive rss-based colorful commandline-fu reader perl oneliner (v0.1)
required packages: curl, xml2, html2text command is truncated, see 'sample output'

Extract all 7zip files in current directory taking filename spaces into account

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"

Short one line while loop that outputs parameterized content from one file to another
There is a common command for outputting a field or list of fields from each line in a file. Why wouldn't you just use cut?

Bypass with hexencoding, dump /etc/passwd

Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

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


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