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convert ascii string to hex
just a bit simpler

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

find files ignoring .svn and its decendents
for when find . -print | grep -v .svn | xargs doesnt cut it.

Watch active calls on an Asterisk PBX
Works on asterisk 1.8.

list files recursively by size

Binary clock
displays current time in "binary clock" format (loosely) inspired by: http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/59e0/ "Decoding": 8421 .... - 1st hour digit: 0 *..* - 2nd hour digit: 9 (8+1) .*.. - 1st minutes digit: 4 *..* - 2nd minutes digit: 9 (8+1) Prompt-command version: PROMPT_COMMAND='echo "10 i 2 o $(date +"%H%M"|cut -b 1,2,3,4 --output-delimiter=" ") f"|dc|tac|xargs printf "%04d\n"|tr "01" ".*"'

Monitor RAID IO Usage
Shows the IO of the raid sync

extract element of xml
poor man's xml parser :)

processes per user counter
use Linux ;)

Generate a ZenCart-style MD5 password hash.
ZenCart uses a MD5 with a salt to secure its passwords. If you need to forcibly change someone's password to a known value within the database, this one-liner can generate the password. Change the value of 'p' to the password you want.


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