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Resume a partially copied file

Print all open regular files sorted by the number of file handles open to each.
This command run fine on my Ubuntu machine, but on Red Hat I had to change the awk command to `awk '{print $10}'`.

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

make directory tree

FInd the 10 biggest files taking up disk space
Often you need to find the files that are taking up the most disk space in order to free up space asap. This script can be run on the enitre filesystem as root or on a home directory to find the largest files.

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check open ports without netstat or lsof

Get NFL/MLB Scores/Time
change the nfl in the url to mlb or nba to get those score/times as well

nohup that doesn't generate nohup.out
I'm sure this can be piped into another way. Please share!

What is my public IP-address?
alternative to $curl ifconfig.me for those that don't have curl


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