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Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance
You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

eavesdrop
Record off the microphone on a remote computer and listen to it live through your speakers locally.

pattern match in awk - no grep
Rather than chain a string of greps together and pipe them to awk, use awk to do all the work. In the above example, a string would be output to stdout if it matched pattern1 AND pattern2, but NOT pattern3.

Rename files in batch

Purge configuration files of removed packages on debian based systems
also search with aptitude search '~c'

Copy/move a bunch of files to dot files and back

Determine whether a CPU has 64 bit capability or not

generate a telephone keypad
seems a useless command ...

Send a local file via email
This just reads in a local file and sends it via email. Works with text or binary. *Requires* local mail server.

Watch the size of a directory using figlet
You can substitute /home/$USER with any path you like.


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