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list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Check executable shared library usage
provides list of shared libraries required by executable

dump 1KB of data from ram to file

Selecting a random file/folder of a folder
random file from files in directory

Change pidgin status
Changes pidgin status using its dbus interface. The status code can be obtained using command #4543.

Show all usernames and passwords for Plesk email addresses

Cleanup a (source) text file, removing trailing spaces/tabs and multiple consecutive blank lines
I used this command (in addition to a code formatting tool) to "cleanup" a bunch of PHP files

Append stdout and stderr to a file, and print stderr to the screen [bash]
Useful for cron jobs -- all output will be logged but only errors will cause email to be sent. NB the order of "2>&1" and ">> logfile" is important, it doesn't work if you reverse them (everything goes to the logfile, nothing left for tee).

Check general system error on AIX
Check general system error on AIX

Print all open regular files sorted by the number of file handles open to each.
List all open files of all processes. . $ find /proc/*/fd Look through the /proc file descriptors . $ -xtype f list only symlinks to file . $ -printf "%l\n" print the symlink target . $ grep -P '^/(?!dev|proc|sys)' ignore files from /dev /proc or /sys . $ sort | uniq -c | sort -n count the results . Many processes will create and immediately delete temporary files. These can the filtered out by adding: $ ... | grep -v " (deleted)$" | ...


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