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Extract content between the first " and the last " double quotes
Thanks to this user: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35636373/2394635

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Chage default shell for all users [FreeBSD]
This command will set bash as the default shell for all users in a FreeBSD system.

sum numbers in the file (or stdin)
add integers from the stdin and print out the result usually, cat /tmp/file | echo $(($(tr '\n' '+')0))

Print compile time in seconds package by package (Gentoo Distros)

display a smiling smiley if the command succeeded and a sad smiley if the command failed
you could save the code between if and fi to a shell script named smiley.sh with the first argument as and then do a smiley.sh to see if the command succeeded. a bit needless but who cares ;)

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"

Convert epoch date to human readable date format in a log file.

Rename files in batch

Generate SSH public key from the private key


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