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Find passwords that has been stored as plain text in NetworkManager

If (and only if) the variable is not set, prompt users and give them a default option already filled in.
The read command reads input and puts it into a variable. With -i you set an initial value. In this case I used a known environment variable.

Get your internal IP address and nothing but your internal IP address
Will return your internal IP address.

watch your network load on specific network interface
-n means refresh frequency you could change eth0 to any interface you want, like wlan0

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"

Get ssh server fingerprints
Get your server's fingerprints to give to users to verify when they ssh in. Publickey locations may vary by distro. Fingerprints should be provided out-of-band.

Compare two CSV files, discarding any repeated lines
The value for the sort command's -k argument is the column in the CSV file to sort on. In this example, it sorts on the second column. You must use some form of the sort command in order for uniq to work properly.

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

delete files containing matching text
-r recursively -Z zero byte after each file name instead of the usual newline -l only filenames

Generate a Change Log with git
Generate a changelog between the v1 and v2 tags


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