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Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir
no fancy grep stuff here.

Speak the top 6 lines of your twitter timeline every 5 minutes.....
Pump up the chatter, run this script on a regular basis to listen to your twitter timeline. This is a rough first cut using several cli clips I have spotted around. There is no facility to not read those things already read to you. This could also easily be put in a loop for timed onslaught from the chatterverse, though I think it might violate several pointsof the Geneva Convention UPDATE - added a loop, only reads the first 6 twits, and does this every 5 mins.

Count files beneath current directory (including subfolders)

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"

Run a bash script in debug mode, show output and save it on a file

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
#4345 also works under windows

Get current stable kernel version string from kernel.org
depends on "jq" This is more reliable in my opinion.

Get absolut path to your bash-script

remove empty lines

Install Linux Kernel Headers on Debian-based systems
Install the Linux kernel headers for currently running kernel version on Debian-based systems via apt-get

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