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Scan all open ports without any required program

Write comments to your history.
A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.

Sync MySQL Servers via secure SSH-tunnel
I wanted to keep a backup of my company database server on my local homeserver. After I found maatkit to sync databases, everything except security seemed fine. SSH takes care of that part.

Show a prettified list of nearby wireless APs

list files recursively by size

Generate a sequence of numbers.

Find the biggest files
Show the top 10 file size

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

Search commandlinefu.com from the command line using the API
just like the original - just colored and with less

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


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