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

Search replace with Ansible style timestamps
$ ls httpd.conf httpd.conf.2015-07-22@14:43:20

Open Sublime-text in current directory

File rotation without rename command
Rotates log files with "gz"-extension in a directory for 7 days and enumerates the number in file name. i.e.: logfile.1.gz > logfile.2.gz I needed this line due to the limitations on AIX Unix systems which do not ship with the rename command.

Quickly generate an MD5 hash for a text string using OpenSSL

Youtube-dl gone stale on you/stopped working (Ubuntu)?
If you update youtube-dl from the repos, it becomes out-of-date quickly. Luckily, it can auto-update.

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create a progress bar...
A simple way yo do a progress bar like wget.

HourGlass
Displays an animated hourglass for x amount of seconds

Find how far nested you are in subshells


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