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List your MACs address

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Retrieve the size of a file on a server
Downloads the entire file, but http servers don't always provide the optional 'Content-Length:' header, and ftp/gopher/dict/etc servers don't provide a filesize header at all.

network usage per process
Nethogs groups bandwidth by process.

Send an http HEAD request w/curl

Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word passphrase (fast)
Some snippets posted are slow on big dictionaries, this one is fast.

generate a random 10 character password
Generate a table of random 10 character passwords

Make a dedicated folder for each zip file
${f%*.zip} strips off the extension from zip filenames

Rename all .jpeg and .JPG files to .jpg

aplay some whitenoise
Plays whitenoise from /dev/urandom.


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