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check open ports without netstat or lsof

Change Windows Domain password from Linux
If you use Linux in a Windows domain and there are N days to expiry, this is how you can change it without resorting to a windows machine.

Find the package that installed a command

Create a random password encrypted with md5 with custom lenght
This was useful to generate random passwords to some webpage users, using the sample code, inside a bash script

Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)
Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale.

Resets a terminal that has been messed up by binary input

find geographical location of an ip address
a shorter version

get you public ip address

List only the directories
This command would be useful when it is desirable to list only the directories. 'egrep' chooses only the lines that begin with 'd'.

Deleting Files from svn which are missing

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