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pipe output to notify-send
Route output to notify-send to show nice messages on the desktop, e.g. title and interpreter of the current radio stream

SHA256 signature sum check of file
get the SHA256 sum signatur for a file

urldecode with AWK
Fast and simple awk urldecoder! Note: Parameter -n is specific to GNU awk

Find out the starting directory of a script
Invoked from within a shell script, this will print the directory in which the script resides. Doesn't depend on external tools, /proc/self/*, etc.. (`echo` is a shell builtin.) To see the *current working* directory of a script, use `pwd`.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Nmap list IPs in a network and saves in a txt

Generate a random password 30 characters long

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"

Find pages returning 404 errors in apache logs
Finds the top ten pages returning an http response code of 404 in an apache log.

Rips CDs (Playstation, etc.) and names the files the same as the volume name


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