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Parse m3u playlist file for total time

Parse an m3u file with seconds for each item and output the length of the entire playlist Show Sample Output
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```
03:13:37
```
1

awk -F":|," '{RS="#"; sec+=$2}END{h=(sec/3600);m=((sec/60) % 60);s=(s;printf("%02d:%02d:%02d\n", h, m, s)}' file.m3u

jonavon · 2020-05-16 18:55:32 69
Check if port is open on remote machine

Check if port is open, if you don't have ncat on your machine. Show Sample Output
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```
Port is open
```
6

echo > /dev/tcp/127.0.0.123/8085 && echo "Port is open"

jonavon · 2020-05-03 13:30:13 67

Graphical tree of sub-directories with files

The command finds every item within the directory and edits the output so that subdirectories are and files are output much like the tree command Show Sample Output

find . -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|-- ;g;s;-- |; |;g'

jonavon · 2019-09-25 17:49:35 62

Telnet to Free Internet Chess Server
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-7

telnet fics.freechess.org 5000

jonavon · 2009-11-09 21:44:19 1

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Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

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Tells which group you DON'T belong to (opposite of command "groups") --- uses sed

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To have only unique lines in a file

Phrack 66 is out, but the .tar.gz is not there yet on phrack.org's website

Nice reading in the morning on the way to work, but sadly the .tar.gz for the whole issue 66 is not on phrack's website yet. So use wget to download.

list files recursively by size

colorize your svn diff

Will colorize your svn diff.

Fetch the current human population of Earth

Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

Remove old kernels (*-generic and *-generic-pae) via apt-get on debian/ubuntu based systems. Tested on ubuntu 10.04 - 12.04.

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