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Kill all processes belonging to a single user.

find all active IP addresses in a network
I just added the args [arp-scan --localnet] which works for Debian users, because the package 'arp' has name 'arp-scan', and it doesn't works with the argument 'arp'.

Find the package that installed a command

Count the words in any OpenOffice document (including Impress presentations)
OpenOffice, LibreOffice and OO Impress wordcount

Count git commits since specific commit

Given process ID print its environment variables

Silently deletes lines containing a specific string in a bunch of files
This command will find all occurrences of one or more patterns in a collection of files and will delete every line matching the patterns in every file

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

A very simple and useful stopwatch
time read -sn1 (s:silent, n:number of characters. Press any character to stop)

list unique file extensions recursively for a path, include extension frequency stats
Get the longest match of file extension (Ex. For 'foo.tar.gz', you get '.tar.gz' instead of '.gz')

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