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list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

convert from decimal to hexadecimal
Use the standard calculator bc to convert decimals to hex

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Reconstruct standard permissions for directories and files in current directory

Search some text from all files inside a directory

Random quote from Borat -- no html parsing
Turns out smacie.com has a text file containing every single one of the borat quotes, each one on a newline. This makes it very convenient, as this can be done without any sed-parsing, and uses less bandwitdth! Note that borate quotes are quite offensive, much more so than "fortunes-off"!

Open (in vim) all modified files in a git repository
The option --porcelain makes the output of git easier to parse. This one-liner may not work if there is a space in the modified file name.

Show tcp connections sorted by Host / Most connections

Simple multi-user encrypted chat server for 5 users
Client ~$ ncat --ssl localhost 9876 Change localhost to the correct ip address.

Convert a SVG file to grayscale
It requires inkscape 0.46 and lxml packages


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