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Generat a Random MAC address
Original author unknown (I believe off of a wifi hacking forum). Used in conjuction with ifconfig and cron.. can be handy (especially spoofing AP's)

Cropping a video file in ffmpeg

Show crontabs for all users
This is flatcaps tweaked command to make it work on SLES 11.2

find process associated with a port
e.g. fuser 25/tcp (see which pid is listening on smtp)

Run a command for blocks of output of another command
The given example collects output of the tail command: Whenever a line is emitted, further lines are collected, until no more output comes for one second. This group of lines is then sent as notification to the user. You can test the example with $ logger "First group"; sleep 1; logger "Second"; logger "group"

The program listening on port 8080 through IPv6

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

Quick and dirty convert to flash
This converts any media ffmpeg handles to flash. It would actually convert anything to anything, it's based on the file extension. It doesn't do ANY quality control, sizing, etc, it just does what it thinks is best. I needed an flv for testing, and this spits one out easily.

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

find previously entered commands
Searches bash-history in reverse order (last entered commands first). Pressing ctrl+r again shows the next matching entry.


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