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What is my ip?

Erase to factory a pendrive, disk or memory card, and watch the progress

Print number of mb of free ram

Parse m3u playlist file for total time
Parse an m3u file with seconds for each item and output the length of the entire playlist

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

Change your timezone

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

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

Copy a directory recursively without data/files

List all symbolic links in current directory
Tested with GNU and BSD ls.


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