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

check open ports without netstat or lsof

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makes more sense to customers XD

Find and copy scattered mp3 files into one directory
This command copies all filenames in the current dir and subdirs that end in .mp3 regardless of case (also matches .MP3 .mP3 and .Mp3) It copies all the files to the "mp3" folder in your home directory. If you want to see the files that are beeing copied, replace "cp {}" with "cp -v {}"

sort list of email addresses by domain.tld
email random list can be created here: https://www.randomlists.com/email-addresses

get you public ip address
Relies on ifconfig.me functioning. It's about as easy as it gets, and memorable to old geeks too.

Do some learning...
I like it sorted... 2> /dev/null was also needless, since our pipes already select stdin, only.

Outgoing IP of server
Faster than the curl/wget-approaches.

check for write/read permissions
su www-apache/ftp user and then check readable: find ~/ -type d \( -wholename '/dev/*' -o -wholename '/sys/*' -o -wholename '/proc/*' \) -prune -o -exec test -r {} \; -exec echo {} readable \; 2>/dev/null check writable: find ~/ -type d \( -wholename '/dev/*' -o -wholename '/sys/*' -o -wholename '/proc/*' \) -prune -o -exec test -w {} \; -exec echo {} writable \; 2>/dev/null

analyze traffic remotely over ssh w/ wireshark
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