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Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Lists all usernames in alphabetical order

Stripping ^M at end of each line for files
just deletes to rogue CR from dos files, and tr is always available.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

colored prompt
It colors the machine name and current directory different colors for easy viewing.

Copy an element from the previous command
'n' is a non-negative integer. Using 0 will expand to the name of the previous command.

Backup all MySQL Databases to individual files
Backups all MySQL databases to individual files. Can be put into a script that grabs current date so you have per day backups.

Top 10 Memory Processes
It displays the top 10 processes sorted by memory usage

Formatted list - WWNs of all LUNs
Use `scsi_id` to positively identify which LUNs are which (i.e. compare with the list of LUNs you created on your disk array) (shown: RHEL5 usage) Debian usage: $ # for i in /dev/sd* ; do wwn=`/lib/udev/scsi_id -g --device $i` ; [ "$wwn" != "" ] && echo -e ${i##*/}'\t'$wwn ;done

check open ports without netstat or lsof


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