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burn an ISO image to writable CD
Does life get much easier? Read up about wodim for an understanding of its origins in relation to the older `cdrecord` utility

Check if a string is into a variable
Returns true (0) if the string is into $var, or false (1) if not.

list all executables in your path
If run in bash, this will display all executables that are in your current $PATH

Monitor dynamic changes in the dmesg log.
Other logs can be monitored similarly, e.g. $ watch "tail -15 /var/log/daemon.log"

Get your external IP address ( 10 characters long )
Shortest url to a external IP-service, 10 characters.

Exclude inserting a table from a sql import
Starting with a large MySQL dump file (*.sql) remove any lines that have inserts for the specified table. Sometimes one or two tables are very large and uneeded, eg. log tables. To exclude multiple tables you can get fancy with sed, or just run the command again on subsequently generated files.

Creat a tar file for backup info
Use tar command for a backup info with a date of creation

Find all plain text files that do not contain STRING

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