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find directory with most inodes/files
Find which directory in one filesystem that contains most inodes or files.

function to compute what percentage of X is Y? Where percent/100 = X/Y => percent=100*X/Y
This function make it easy to compute X/Y as a percentage. The name "wpoxiy" is an acronym of "what percentage of X is Y"

Recompress all text files in a subdirectory with lzma
This will deal nicely with filenames containing newlines and will run one lzma process per CPU core. It requires GNU Parallel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ

Get My Public IP Address

repeat a command every one second
Short method of "while x=0; do foo ; sleep 1 ; done"

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

Clean the /boot directory
On Fedora clean the boot directory; erase older kernel

Simplest port scanner
Very handy way to perform a host scan if you don't have nmap,ncat,nc ...or other tools installed locally. When executing a command on a /dev/tcp/$host/$port pseudo-device file, Bash opens a TCP connection to the associated socket and UDP connection when using /dev/udp/$host/$port.A simlpe way to get servers banner is to run this command "cat < /dev/tcp/localhost/25" , here you will get mail server's banner. NOTE: Bash, as packaged for Debian, does not support using the /dev/tcp and /dev/udp pseudo-device it's not enabled by default Because bash in Debian is compiled with ?disable-net-redirections.

Compute newest kernel version from Makefile on Torvalds' git repository
The platform-agnostic version of https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/25276/compute-newest-kernel-version-from-makefile-on-torvalds-git-repository because macOS doesn't have wget installed

archlinux:Delete packages from pacman cache that are older than 7 days
for debian/ubuntu


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