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Disable beep sound from your computer
This command will disable the beep sound from the PC speaker.

Apply, in parallel, a bc expression to CSV
Define a function that applies bc, the *nix calculator, with the specified expression to all rows of the input CSV. The first column is mapped to {1}, second one to {2}, and so forth. See sample output for an example. This function uses all available cores thanks to GNU Parallel. Requires GNU Parallel

Ultra fast public IP address lookup using Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1

Lint Git unstaged PHP files
Checks for syntax errors in PHP files modified in current working copy of a Git repository.

Get the date for the last Saturday of a given month
If your locale has Monday as the first day of the week, like mine in the UK, change the two $7 into $6

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

Find the package that installed a command

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"

Copy a file from a remote server to your local box using on-the-fly compression
-P displays a progress meter -z tells rsync to use compression


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