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Count the number of queries to a MySQL server

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Download a numbered sequence of files

pdfcount: get number of pages in a PDF file

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

history manipulation
make make install !-2 && !-1

backup your playstation game using rip

Exclude inserting a table from a sql import
Starting with a large MySQL dump file (*.sql) remove any lines that have inserts for the specified table. Sometimes one or two tables are very large and uneeded, eg. log tables. To exclude multiple tables you can get fancy with sed, or just run the command again on subsequently generated files.

Add a DNS server on the fly
Since systemd-resolved was implemented, add a DNS server have become weirder and harder than before. With this command, you can add a DNS server on-the-fly tied to an specific interface

Backup a filesystem to a remote machine and use cstream to throttle bandwidth of the backup
This command will nicely dump a filesystem to STDOUT, compress it, encrypt it with the gpg key of your choice, throttle the the data stream to 60kb/s and finally use ssh to copy the contents to an image on a remote machine.


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