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

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Create a 5 MB blank file via a seek hole
Similar to the original, but is much faster since it only needs to write the last byte as zero. A diff on testfile and testfile.seek will return that they are the same.

Count TCP States From Netstat
Counts TCP states from Netstat and displays in an ordered list.

find listening ports by pid
change 24073 to your pid

apt-get upgrade with bandwidth limit
in Debian-based systems apt-get could be limited to the specified bandwidth in kilobytes using the apt configuration options(man 5 apt.conf, man apt-get). I'd quote man 5 apt.conf: "The used bandwidth can be limited with Acquire::http::Dl-Limit which accepts integer values in kilobyte. The default value is 0 which deactivates the limit and tries uses as much as possible of the bandwidth..." "HTTPS URIs. Cache-control, Timeout, AllowRedirect, Dl-Limit and proxy options are the same as for http..."

Get My Public IP Address

Find the 10 users that take up the most disk space

Another Curl your IP command
Just another curl command to get your public facing IP

cloning partition tables under Solaris


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