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Which files/dirs waste my disk space
I added -S to du so that you don't include /foo/bar/baz.iso in /foo, and change sorts -n to -h so that it can properly sort the human readable sizes.

See system users

Yet Another Large Screen Clock

Change the ownership of all files owned by one user.
Finds all files in /home owned by UID 1056 and changes to 2056.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Release memory used by the Linux kernel on caches
=1 --> to free pagecache =2 --> to free dentries and inodes =3 --> to free pagecache, dentries and inodes

Outputs a 10-digit random number

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

Erase CD RW

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


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