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Read random news on the internet
sort -R randomize the list. head -n1 takes the first.

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Let keyboard LED blink

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

Prepend a text to a file.
Using the sed -i (inline), you can replace the beginning of the first line of a file without redirecting the output to a temporary location.

Exclude inserting a table from a sql import
Starting with a large MySQL dump file (*.sql) remove any lines that have inserts for the specified table. Sometimes one or two tables are very large and uneeded, eg. log tables. To exclude multiple tables you can get fancy with sed, or just run the command again on subsequently generated files.

Stream audio over ssh ogg version
Stream OGG vorbis over ssh.

Print the current time on the whole screen, updated every second
http://www.joachim-breitner.de/projects#screen-message now also supports reading stdin continuously to update what it shows, different ?slides? separated by a form feed character. Here, we feed the current time into it each second to create a large clock.

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"

Find out my Linux distribution name and version


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