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Print diagram of user/groups
Parses /etc/group to "dot" format and pases it to "display" (imagemagick) to show a usefull diagram of users and groups (don't show empty groups).

remove password from openssl key file
Strip a password from a openssl key to use with apache httpd server

Extracting frames from a video as jpeg files
This command extracts 10 seconds worth of frames, starting from 00:15:45 position, from filename.avi and stores them into out_frames folder as jpeg files. Subtitles are turned off with -sid 999 option.

External IP (raw data)
can be used in script like : echo $(wget -qO- http://utils.admin-linux.fr/ip.php)

move a lot of files over ssh
copy files to a ssh server with gzip compression

recursive search and replace old with new string, inside files
Search and replace recursively. :-) Shorter and simpler than the others. And allows more terms: replace old new [old new ...] -- `find -type f`

Show a line when a "column" matchs

List programs with open ports and connections

Open Port Check
also could specify port number: lsof -ni TCP:80

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

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