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

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

Stream and copy a video from lan
Requires a listening port on HOST eg. "cat movie.mp4 | nc -l 1356 " (cat movie.mp4 | nc -l PORT) Useful if you're impatient and want to watch a movie immediately and download it at the same time without using extra bandwidth. You can't seek (it'll crash and kill the stream) but you can pause it.

Dump bash command history of an active shell user.

Make changes in .bashrc immediately available
You may want to just use the shortcut "." instead of "source"

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Search for in which package the specified file is included.

Bitcoin prices from the command line

convert a line to a space

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


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