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watch your network load on specific network interface
-n means refresh frequency you could change eth0 to any interface you want, like wlan0

grep apache access.log and list IP's by hits and date - sorted

Decrypt passwords from Google Chrome and Chromium.
Read this before you down voting and comment that it is not working -> Wont work on latest versions ~75> since database file is locked and has to be decrypted. This is useful if you have an old hdd with a chrome installation and want to decrypt your old passwords fast.

quickly backup or copy a file with bash

Batch rename extension of all files in a folder, in the example from .txt to .md

Drop all tables from a database, without deleting it
Uses two comands, requieres mysqldump, but works as expected.

Find usb device
I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

Lists architecture of installed RPMs
Lists all installed RPM packages with name and architecture, which is useful to check for compability packages (+ required i386 packages) on a 64bit system.

Watch command
Repeat command after every 2 secs

Retry the previous command until it exits successfully

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