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Analyse an Apache access log for the most common IP addresses
This uses awk to grab the IP address from each request and then sorts and summarises the top 10.

Numerically sorted human readable disk usage
Provides numerically sorted human readable du output. I so wish there was just a du flag for this.

Generate a certificate signing request (CSR) for an existing private key. CSR.csr MUST be exists before
CSR.csr MUST be exists before

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

show framebuffer console modes to use in grub vga option
look at /boot/grub/menu.lst for somethig like: ## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the ## alternatives ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5 ## defoptions=vga=795 # defoptions=vga=873 ## altoption boot targets option ## multiple altoptions lines are allowed ## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options ## altoptions=(recovery) single # altoptions=(verbose mode) vga=775 debug # altoptions=(console mode) vga=ask # altoptions=(graphic mode) quiet splash # altoptions=(recovery mode) single vga=(decimal value) is framebuffer mode

Find directory depth
Returns a the directory depth.

Display BIOS Information

Fetch the current human population of Earth
They are using json now

Find the package a command belongs to on Debian

Watch the progress of 'dd'
run this in another terminal, were xxxx is the process ID of the running dd process. the progress will report on the original terminal that you ran dd on


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