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Show biggest files/directories, biggest first with 'k,m,g' eyecandy
I use this on debian testing, works like the other sorted du variants, but i like small numbers and suffixes :)

Uninstall bloatware on your android device without root.
List all packages with: pm list packages|cut -d: -f2

Run command from another user and return to current

return external ip
Return IP information about your external ip address with JSON format

recursively walk down no more than three levels and grab any file with an extension of mp3, mpg, mpeg, or avi

(Debian/Ubuntu) Discover what package a file belongs to
Works similar to dpkg -S, but uses the locatedb and is thus inarguably a lot faster - if the locatedb is current.

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

tail, with specific pattern colored

Arch Linux sort installed packages by size
This one-liner will output installed packages sorted by size in Kilobytes.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy


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