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Get your outgoing IP address

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Validate date, also a date within a leap year
Important to know: a valid date will return 0, otherwise 1!

a function to find the fastest free DNS server
Uses GNU Parallel.

skip broken piece of a loop but not exit the loop entirely
useful for loops like for i in $(cat list_of_servers); do ssh -q $i hostname; done if there is an unreachable server, you can just press ctrl + \ to skip that server and continue on with the loop

Get your commandlinefu points (upvotes - downvotes)
This will calculate the your commandlinefu votes (upvotes - downvotes). Hopefully this will boost my commandlinefu points.

Convert numbers to SI notation
converts any number on the 'stdin' to SI notation. My version limits to 3 digits of precious (working with 10% resistors).

Destroy all ZFS snapshots

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