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Sorted list of established destination connections
no need grep. its redundant when awk is present.

Create a bunch of dummy files for testing
Sometimes I need to create a directory of files to operate on to test out some commandlinefu I am cooking up. The main thing is the range ({1..N}) expansion.

grep -v with multiple patterns.
That's what the sed command should've been, sorry.

know the current running shell (the true)
Return the current shell. It is better than print $SHELL which can sometimes return a false value.

Set laptop display brightness
Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

converting vertical line to horizontal line

Prints the latest modified files in a directory tree recursively
Sorts by latest modified files by looking to current directory and all subdirectories

Generate random valid mac addresses
Python Alternative

Make a statistic about the lines of code
use find to grep all .c files from the target directory, cat them into one stream, then piped to wc to count the lines

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy


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