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Get absolut path to your bash-script
Another way of doing it that's a bit clearer. I'm a fan of readable code.

list files recursively by size

Explanation of system and MySQL error codes
perror should be installed if mysql-server package is installed

Check disk I/O

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Colored cal output

power off system in X minutes
Replace 60 with the number of minutes until you want the machine to shut down. Alternatively give an absolute time in the format hh:mm (shutdown -h 9:30) Or shutdown right away (shutdown -h now)

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

How to get an absolute value
Whenever we are only interested in difference between two numbers and not the positive/negative values we can use this in script.

shell bash iterate number range with for loop
Bash's arithmetic evaluation.


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