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Create the directoty recursively

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list files recursively by size

Adding Prefix to File name
Adding course name prefix to lecture pdfs

FInd the 10 biggest files taking up disk space
This combines the above two command into one. Note that you can leave off the last two commands and simply run the command as "find /home/ -type f -exec du {} \; 2>/dev/null | sort -n | tail -n 10" The last two commands above just convert the output into human readable format.

Broadcast your shell thru ports 5000, 5001, 5002 ...
run 'nc yourip 5000', 'nc yourip 5001' or 'nc yourip 5002' elsewhere will produce an exact same mirror of your shell. This is handy when you want to show someone else some amazing stuff in your shell without giving them control over it.

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

Calculate sum of N numbers (Thanks to flatcap)

ssh tunnel with auto reconnect ability


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