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Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Kills a process that is locking a file.
Useful when you're trying to unmount a volume and other sticky situations where a rogue process is annoying the hell out of you.

Extract tar.gz file with original permission
-x, --extract, --get extract files from an archive -p, --preserve-permissions, --same-permissions extract information about file permissions (default for superuser) -f, --file=ARCHIVE use archive file or device ARCHIVE -v, --verbose verbosely list files processed

Remove sound from video file using mencoder
Remove sound from input video file, output video stream is copied from input video stream, with no audio.

Get IP from hostname

Throttle download speed (at speed x )
Throttle download speed $aria2c --max-download-limit=100K file.metalink Throttle upload speed $aria2c --max-upload-limit=100K file.torrent

Filter IP's in apache access logs based on use
The first sort is necessary for ips in a list to be actually unique.

find directory with most inodes/files
Find which directory in one filesystem that contains most inodes or files.

Get the 10 biggest files/folders for the current direcotry

Randomize lines in a file
Works in sort (GNU coreutils) 7.4, don't know when it was implemented but sometime the last 6 years.


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