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Find removed files still in use via /proc
Oracle DBA remove some logfiles which are still open by the database and he is complaining the space has not been reclaimed? Use the above command to find out what PID needs to be stopped. Or alternatively recover the file via: $ cp /proc/pid/fd/filehandle /new/file.txt

Show what PID is listening on port 80 on Linux

mix video and audio
-map 0.0:0 map the video of video.mp4 to the video of mix.mp4 -map 1.0:1 map the audio of audio.mp3 to the audio of mix.mp4 make sure that video.mp4 and audio.mp3 have the same duration

list files in mtime order
Simple but useful; list files in the current directory in mtime order. Useful if you've been working on something and then take a day or two off.

Url Encode
Returns URL Encoded string from input ($1).

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Get first Git commit hash
git log --format=%H | tail -1 doesn't work anymore

split source code to page with numbers

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

summarize a list of IP addresses, verifying IP address and giving counts for each IP found
Working with lists of IP addresses it is sometimes useful to summarize a count of how many times an IP address appears in the file. This example, summarizeIP, uses another function "verifyIP" previously defined in commandlinefu.com to ensure only valid IP addresses get counted. The summary list is presented in count order starting with highest count.


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