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Post a message to another users screen via SSH
Post a message on another users screen via SSH

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

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Remove git branches that do not have a remote tracking branch anymore

Find the package that installed a command

Get the serial numbers from HP RAID
This dumps serial numbers of all the drives but HP warranty check does not say they are valid ...

Count TCP States From Netstat
Counts TCP states from Netstat and displays in an ordered list.

check the fucking weather
grab the weather, with a little expletive fun. replace the 48104 with a US zipcode, or the name of your city (such as ZIP="oslo"), unless you want to know what the weather is like for me (and that's fine too)

Generate a 18 character password, print the password and sha512 salted hash
Generate a 18 character password from character set a-zA-Z0-9 from /dev/urandom, pipe the output to Python which prints the password on standard out and in crypt sha512 form.

Convert all MySQL tables and fields to UTF8
This loops through all tables and changes their collations to UTF8. You should backup beforehand though in case some data is lost in the process.


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