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Basic sed usage with xargs to refactor a node.js depdendency

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Look for English words in /dev/urandom
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Display top 5 processes consuming CPU

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

List contents of jar
useful to find the list of dependencies

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

Look for IPv4 address in files.
It finds a SNMP OID too :-(

Get your external IP address
Yeah I know it's been up here a million times, but this service is a really clean and nice one. Nothing but your IP address on it. Actually I was to write something like this, and noticed this on appspot... ;)


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