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

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

create and md5 sum of your password
create and md5 sum of your password without it showing up in your terminal or history. Afterwards we overwrite the $p variable (thx to bazzargh)

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

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Clean apt-get and gpg cache and keys
Cleans apt-get and gpg cache and keys

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Find last reboot time
Specific to OSX.

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