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List only the directories
to include hidden dirs use: $ tree -adL 1 (with ls, requires 'ls -ad */ .*/')

gain all mp3s in subfolders w/o encoding
This will search all subfolders for mp3's and gain them to more or less sane defaults (without reencoding). http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/ required!

list files recursively by size

List total available upgrades from apt without upgrading the system
This let's you find out the total packages that have available upgrades. Usefull if you want to check or show the total available upgrades on your system.

Push your present working directory to a stack that you can pop later
If are a Bash user and you are in a directory and need to go else where for a while but don't want to lose where you were, use pushd instead of cd. cd /home/complicated/path/.I/dont/want/to/forget pushd /tmp cd thing/in/tmp popd (returns you to /home/complicated/path/.I/dont/want/to/forget)

Show permissions of current directory and all directories upwards to /
Useful if a different user cannot access some directory and you want to know which directory on the way misses the x bit.

Use AWS CLI and JQ to get a list of instances sorted by launch time
You can do the filtering natively in the aws cli, without using jq (although jq is awesome!)

Verify if ntpd is working properly
Used to verify if Network Time Protocol daemon is working properly.

List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
Simple and easy to remember. -h is human, -d1 = depth 1. disk usage, human, depth 1

Destroy all disks on system simultaneously
This command will use the fdisk utility to find all block devices on your system, and overwrite them with data from the /dev/urandom non-blocking random number generator. CAUTION: This will irrevocably erase EVERY SINGLE physical block storage device visible to the fdisk utility, including plugged USB devices, RAID sets, LVM, etc.


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