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

Find the package a command belongs to on debian-based distros
Advanced revision to the command 8776 . This revision follows symbolic links. The quotation-marks surrounding $(which $1) allows for graceful handling of errors ( ie. readlink does not complain incase 'which' command generates (null) output)

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"

Perl One Liner to Generate a Random IP Address
A bash version.

Shows you how many hours of avi video you have.
midentify.sh is part of mplayer, but you might have to locate it on your box.

UPS Tracking Script

Mouse Tracking
Will track your mouse and save it to a file. You can use gnuplot to graph it: $ gnuplot -persist

diff files while disregarding indentation and trailing white space

Print lines in a text file with numbers in first column higher or equal than a value
A text file contains thousands of numbers. This command prints lines were the number is greater or equal than a specified value (134000000).

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.


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