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Lists the size of certain file in every 10 seconds
watch is a command especially designed for doing this job

rsync + find
rsync from source to dest all between >30

How to get an absolute value
Whenever we are only interested in difference between two numbers and not the positive/negative values we can use this in script.

find geographical location of an ip address
a shorter version

An alias to re-run last command with sudo. Similar to "sudo !!"
I didn't come up with this myself, but I always add this to my .bash_aliases file. It's essentially the same idea as running "sudo !!" except it's much easier to type. (You can't just alias "sudo !!", it doesn't really work for reasons I don't understand.) "fc" is a shell built-in for editing and re-running previous commands. The -l flag tells it to display the line rather than edit it, and the -n command tells it to omit the line number. -1 tells it to print the previous line. For more detail: $help fc

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Reduce PDF Filesize

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"

Calculate sum of N numbers (Thanks to flatcap)

Gets a random Futurama quote from /.


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