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Match a URL
For the record: I didn't build this. Just shared what I found that worked. Apologies to the original author! I decided I should fix the case where http://example.com is not matched for the next time I need this. So I read rfc1035 and formalized the host name regex. If anyone finds any more holes, please comment.

List only executables installed by a debian package
Maybe not clean with big package and too long argument. But return every file who can be executed.

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Download and Extract mp3 from Youtube Video
This will download a video when given the link and it will extract the audio from the video. The filename will be the same as the video's title. File extension in mp3.

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"

scp with compression.
-C is for compression.

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

Print a row of characters across the terminal
shorter than alternative

See system users

Print a row of 50 hyphens

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