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Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size

website recursive offline mirror with wget
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Get your external IP address ( 10 characters long )
Shortest url to a external IP-service, 10 characters.

Save a file you edited in vim without the needed permissions - (Open)solaris version with RBAC

Run iMacros from terminal
Run iMacros from terminal

Check if you work on a virtual/physical machine in Linux
Command used to know if we are working on a virtual or physical machine. This command will use the dmidecode utility to retrieve hardware information of your computer via the BIOS. Run this command as root or with sudo.

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"

remove all spaces from all files in current folder

Delete all non-printing characters from a file
tr has some predefined sets of characters that are more convenient to use than characters codes

A very quick and slick fork bomb. Handle with care. Don't run on production please...


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