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check open ports without netstat or lsof

What is my ip?

Download all MegaTokyo strips
A simple script for download all the MegaTokyo strips from the first to the last one

extract audio from flv to mp3

Generate a playlist of all the files in the directory, newer first
I use this to generate a playlist with all the podcasts I listen to. Ordered from most recent to older.

Easy Persistent SSH Connections Using Screen
Use as: $ s host1 Will ssh to remote host upon first invocation. Then use C-a d to detatch. Running "s host1" again will resume the shell session on the remote host. Only useful in LAN environment. You'd want to start the screen on the remote host over a WAN. Adapted from Hack 34 in Linux Server Hacks 2nd Addition.

Backup trought SSH

Read aloud a text file in Ubuntu (and other Unixes with espeak installed

Find all files larger than 500M and less than 1GB

Delete line number 10 from file
Very useful when the ssh key of a host has changed and ssh refuses to connect to the machine, while giving you the line number that has changed in ~/.ssh/known_hosts.


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