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

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"

Watch active calls on an Asterisk PBX
Works on asterisk 1.8.

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

create a backup for all directories from current dir
Create backup (.tar.gz) for all first-level directory from current dir.

Monitor a file with tail with timestamps added
Should be a bit more portable since echo -e/n and date's -Ins are not.

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"

Top 10 Memory Processes
It displays the top 10 processes sorted by memory usage

Count opening and closing braces in a string.
This function counts the opening and closing braces in a string. This is useful if you have eg long boolean expressions with many braces and you simply want to check if you didn't forget to close one.

Use a var with more text only if it exists
See "Parameter Expansion" in the bash manpage. They refer to this as "Use Alternate Value", but we're including the var in the at alternative.


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