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Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance
You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Batch convert files to utf-8
taken from http://blog.ofirpicazo.com/linux/batch-convert-files-to-utf-8/

Belgian banking "structured communication"
Derived from current time down to minutes.

Get your external IP address ( 10 characters long )
Shortest url to a external IP-service, 10 characters.

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"

Get a docker container's run command line
A good way to build a new container when you don't remember how you did it the first time

Capitalize first letter of each word in a string
Capitalize first letter of each word in a string.

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

Start a HTTP server which serves Python docs
I use this command to start a local Python document server over HTTP port 8888.

Resize a Terminal Window
Replace 70 with the desired height. Replace 180 with the desired width. I put it in my bashrc, because by default my terminal is too small.


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