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Displays the version of the Adobe Flash plugin installed
This is for Debian, simply change the path if your Flash plugin is installed elsewhere.

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

website recursive offline mirror with wget
website recursive offline mirror with wget

makes screen your default shell without breaking SCP or SFTP
I changed my shell to screen by editing .bashrc, this stopped scp from connecting. Adding two tests before screen fixed them problem.

Create several copies of a file
Copy a file to a range of other files.

copy public key

Apply permissions only to files
To apply only to dirs: $ chmod 755 $(find . -type d) Use -R parameters for recursive walk.

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

Show latest changed files

sort list of email addresses by domain.tld
email random list can be created here: https://www.randomlists.com/email-addresses


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