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sum numbers in the file (or stdin)
add integers from the stdin and print out the result usually, cat /tmp/file | echo $(($(tr '\n' '+')0))

ls only directories
Like normal ls, but only lists directories. Can be used with -l to get more details (ls -lad */)

Regex to remove HTML-Tags from a file
This regular expression removes all HTML-Tags from the file.

Pretty print SQL query with python in one line
You need to apt-get install python-sqlparse. This command simply formats a sql query and prints it out. It is very useful when you want to move a sql query from commandline to a shell script. Everything is done locally, so you don't need to worry about copying sql query to external websites.

Check your unread Gmail from the command line
Checks the Gmail ATOM feed for your account, parses it and outputs a list of unread messages. For some reason sed gets stuck on OS X, so here's a Perl version for the Mac: $ curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | tr -d '\n' | awk -F '' '{for (i=2; i

Mount Fat USB with RWX
after that, you can launch bash script in your usb drive in FAT32.

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"

Copy without overwriting

Show the PATH, one directory per line
This is useful for examining the path.

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

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