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Send an email from the terminal when job finishes
Might as well include the status code it exited with so you know right away if it failed or not.

Stat each file in a directory
This will run stat on each file in the directory.

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"

Apply permissions only to files
To apply only to dirs: $ chmod 755 $(find . -type d) Use -R parameters for recursive walk.

Show database sql schema from Remote or Local database
After ssh into server, run this command to show all the table structure and schema.

Generate a random password 30 characters long
According to the gpg(1) manual: --gen-random 0|1|2 count Emit count random bytes of the given quality level 0, 1 or 2. If count is not given or zero, an endless sequence of random bytes will be emitted. If used with --armor the output will be base64 encoded. PLEASE, don't use this command unless you know what you are doing; it may remove precious entropy from the system! If your entropy pool is critical for various operations on your system, then using this command is not recommended to generate a secure password. With that said, regenerating entropy is as simple as: $ du -s / This is a quick way to generate a strong, base64 encoded, secure password of arbitrary length, using your entropy pool (example above shows a 30-character long password).

Convert JSON to YAML
Convert JSON to YAML. Note that you'll need to have PyYaml installed.

grep across a git repo and open matching files in gedit

Rename files in batch

See system users


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