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Sort installed rpms in alphabetic order with their size.

Count Files in a Directory with Wildcards.
Remove the '-maxdepth 1' option if you want to count in directories as well

Perl One Liner to Generate a Random IP Address
A bash version.

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

Deal with dot files safely

Display BIOS Information

Show a file in less without wrapping long lines

print shared library dependencies
May be used on (embedded) systems lack ldd

print offsets of file disk for losetup/loop-mount
If you want to mount partitions of an disk image, you need the offsets and sizes of the partitions. This command prints them in the format that losetup understands.


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