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Printout a list of field numbers (awk index) from a CSV file with headers as first line.
Useful to identify the field number in big CSV files with large number of fields. The index is the reference to use in processing with commands like 'cut' or 'awk' involved.

draw line separator
Even shorter: $ seq -s '*' 120|tr -d '[0-9]'

Convert flv without re-encoding

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

Make anything more awesome
Pipe any command through figlet to make the output more awesome. Example: $ ls | figlet

Bash logger

Cut/Copy brackets or parentheses on vim (in normal mode)
We have for example : func () { echo FOO echo BAR } Place the cursor under a bracket and press d + %. It will cut everything inside and the brackets. It let : func () You can copy text with y + %

Find an installed app

Two command output
Summarize established connections after netstat output. Using tee and /dev/stderr you can send one command output to terminal before executing wc so you can summarize at the bottom of the output.

Remove duplicate rows of an un-sorted file based on a single column
$F[0] filters using first word. $F[1] - 2nd, and so on.


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