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Attempt an XSS exploit on commandlinefu.com
Mouse around the title of this item, and note that your cookies are being logged to the console. If I were evil, I could instead send everyone's cookies to my site, and then post up-votes on all my submissions using their cookies, and try to delete every other submission, until clfu was completely pwned by me, redirecting people to malware and porn sites, and so on. Update - now fixed.

Google text-to-speech in mp3 format

Count number of files in a directory

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

Upgrade all expired homebrew packages
You probably want to run `brew update` before you run this command

Rename files in batch

Multi line grep using sed and specifying open/close tags
This line does not include your closing tag in the output.

delete file name space
delete file name space the rename is rename perl version

Randomly run command
Randomly decide whether to run a command, or fail. It's useful for testing purposes. . Usage: ran PERCENTAGE COMMAND [ARGS] Note: In this version the percentage is required. . This is like @sesom42 and @snipertyler's commands but in a USABLE form. . e.g. In your complicated shell script, put "ran 99" before a crucial component. Now, it will fail 1% of the time allowing you to test the failure code-path. $ ran 99 my_complex_program arg1 arg2

Start a quick rsync daemon for fast copying on internal secure network
"Sample output" shows a minimalistic configuration file.


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