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Report all quota usage
Check disk quota for all user

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

cleanup /tmp directory
Cleans all files in /tmp that have been accessed at least 2 days ago.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Monitor a file's size
use "watch" instead of while-loops in these simple cases

Use top to monitor only all processes with the same name fragment 'foo'
Like command 10870, but no need for sed

execute command on all files of certain types excluding folders that match pattern

Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usage

ping MAC ADDRESS
# first install arp-scan if not have it arp-scan 10.1.1.0/24 .... show ip+mac in localnet awk '/00:1b:11:dc:a9:65/ {print $1}' .... get ip associated with MAC ` backtick make do command substitution passing ip to command ping

Run the last command as root - (Open)Solaris version with RBAC

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