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Blank/erase a DVD-RW

Force logout after 24 hours idle
Shell timeout variables (TMOUT) can be very liberal about what is classified as 'activity', like having an editor open. This command string will terminate the login shell for an user with more than a day's idle time.

convert a mp4 video file to mp3 audio file (multiple files)

Check if variable is a number

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

kill all processes using a directory/file/etc
This command will kill all processes using a directory. It's quick and dirty. One may also use a -9 with kill in case regular kill doesn't work. This is useful if one needs to umount a directory.

To have only unique lines in a file

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Perl Command Line Interpreter
Read, Evaluate, Print, Loop - REPL

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


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