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climagic's New Year's Countdown clock
This is the 140 character long new year's countdown timer that was posted to the climagic account on twitter and identi.ca. There are saner ways of doing this of course, but probably none of those would fit. Uses the figlet command, but of course you can replace figlet with just echo if you want.

dd with progress bar and statistics to gzipped image

cd into the latest directory

remove all spaces from all files in current folder

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

invoke MATLAB functions from command line
`-r script.m` also possible

Pipe stdout and stderr, etc., to separate commands
You can use [n]> combined with >(cmd) to attach the various output file descriptors to be the input of different commands.

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"

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

Generate random valid mac addresses
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