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Start a local web server in the current directory on a random dynamic port.

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Recursively touch all files and subdirectories

Replace spaces in filenames with underscores
It's the rename-tool from debians perl-package.

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

Display which distro is installed
Works on nearly all linux distros

one-liner mpc track changer using dmenu
Add a [fluxbox] binding in your key file then this command provides a dmenu selector for the next track to play

Use Kernighan & Ritchie coding style in C program

Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password
4 random words are better than one obfuscated word http://xkcd.com/936/

detect partitions
`blkid` is an interface to libuuid - it can read Device Mapper, EVMS, LVM, MD, and regular block devices. -c /dev/null - Do not use cached output from /etc/blkid.tab or /etc/blkid/blkid.tab (RHEL) -i - Display I/O Limits (aka I/O topology) information (not available in RHEL) -p - Low-level superblock probing mode (not available in RHEL)


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