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get a list of top 1000 sites from alexa
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Find the package that installed a command

check open ports without netstat or lsof

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Delete Empty Directories
Deletes empty directories and prints an error if directory is not empty.

List alive hosts in specific subnet
Works on any machine with nmap installed. Previous version does not work on machines without "seq". Also works on subnets of any size.

Get acurate memory usage of a Process in MegaBytes

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Recursively Find Images, Convert to JPEGS and Delete
Simple command to convert a large number of images into jpeg-format. Will delete originals after conversion.


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