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Kill all processes belonging to a user
This is a 'killall' command equivalent where it is not available. Prior to executing it, set the environment variable USERNAME to the username, whose processes you want to kill or replace the username with the $USERNAME on the command above. Side effect: If any processes from other users, are running with a parameter of $USERNAME, they will be killed as well (assuming you are running this as root user) [-9] in square brackets at the end of the command is optional and strongly suggested to be your last resort. I do not like to use it as the killed process leaves a lot of mess behind.

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

Use Kernighan & Ritchie coding style in C program

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

Download Englishword pronounciation as mp3 file

Collect a lot of icons from /usr/share/icons (may overwrite some, and complain a bit)
In other way of xargs, only with find -exec

Pulls email password out of Plesk database for given email address.
This simply pulls the password out of the database for the given mail name for ease of use in testing emails that you would not normally have access to.

which program is this port belongs to ?
Sometimes you need to use a port that is already opened by some program , and you don't know who to "kill" for it to release - so, now you do !

Lurk what's going on on remote console


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