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Get your outgoing IP address
should be very consistent cause it's google :-)

Backup all MySQL Databases to individual files
Backs up all databases, excluding test, mysql, performance_schema, information_schema. Requires parallel to work, install parallel on Ubuntu by running: sudo aptitude install parallel

Rips CDs (Playstation, etc.) and names the files the same as the volume name

flush memcached via netcat

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

ssh X tunneling over multiple ssh hosts (through ssh proxy)
Simply makes it possible to launch any X application residing on sshhost through sshproxy and display it on your screen where ever you are.

Download SSL/TLS pem format cert from https web host

vi case insensitive search

get all Google ipv4/6 subnets for a iptables firewall for example (updated version)
google has added 2 more netblocks...

xargs for builtin bash commands
Similar to xargs -i, but works with builtin bash commands (rather than running "bash -c ..." through xargs)


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