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Mount a partition from within a complete disk dump
Instead of calculating the offset and providing an offset option to mount, let lomount do the job for you by just providing the partition number you would like to loop mount.

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

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Calculate the mean or average of a single column of numbers in a text file
single-column-numbers.txt is a text file with 22658 rows (numbers) in a single column. Each number can range from 0 to 134298679.533591 and the dot is for the decimals. This is done with perl because awk can't sum such high numbers.

grep for minus (-) sign
Use flag "--" to stop switch parsing

Print the IPv4 address of a given interface

Battery real life energy vs predicted remaining plotted
This time I added a print to reemaining energy, every minute, time stamped. The example shown here is complete and point to large discrepancies as time passes, converging to accuracy near the end.

finding more large files

find external links in all html files in a directory list
Just a handy way to get all the unique links from inside all the html files inside a directory. Can be handy on scripts etc.

An alternative to: python -m SimpleHTTPServer for Arch Linux
An alternative to: python -m SimpleHTTPServer for Arch Linux source: http://archlinux.me/dusty/2010/01/15/simplehttpserver-in-python-3/


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