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Remove all mail in Postfix mail queue.

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

Find Mac address

Print a list of the 30 last modified mp3s sorted by last first

Number of CPU's in a system
This appears to do the same. Utility is verified to be present on Ubuntu and OpenSuse out-of-the-box.

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

Calculate N!
Same as the seq/bc solution but without bc.

Find out how much data is waiting to be written to disk
Ever ask yourself "How much data would be lost if I pressed the reset button?" Scary, isn't it?

Delete leading whitespace from the start of each line
Removes any whitespace characters at the beginning of a line.

Cleanup a (source) text file, removing trailing spaces/tabs and multiple consecutive blank lines
I used this command (in addition to a code formatting tool) to "cleanup" a bunch of PHP files


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