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Search some text from all files inside a directory

Completely wipe all data on your Synology NAS and reinstall DSM. (BE CAREFUL)

Put public IP address in a variable

Mostly silent FLAC checking (only errors are displayed)
FLAC's built in integrity checks are far more useful then devising a scheme to use MD5 sum files. This will check all the FLAC in a directory and output only errors. Remove the "s" after the "t" and it will be somewhat verbose in the check.

determine if tcp port is open
for udp nmap -sU -p 80 hostname

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

remove repeated pairs of characters e.g. "xtxtxtxt" will become "xt"
This will remove repeated characters e.g. echo "xtxtxtxt" | sed -ru 's/(..)\1{2,}/\1/g' the output will just be "xt"

print a cpu of a process

Get Unique Hostnames from Apache Config Files
Get a list of all the unique hostnames from the apache configuration files. Handy to see what sites are running on a server. A slightly shorter version.


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