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Extract ip addresses with sed
Extracts ip addressess from file using sed. Uses a tag(ip) to grep the IP lines after extracting. Must be a way to just output regex matched on sed.

List the largest directories & subdirectoties in the current directory sorted from largest to smallest.

resolve short urls
since the most url shorteners respond with a header containing the Location: ... this works with most common shorteners

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A Console-based Audio Visualizer for ALSA
# Installing apt search cava sudo apt install cava # modify the default config to change the colors by their hex color code cava -p mkdir ~/.cava nano ~/.cava/config cava # run with changes!

Open Perl module source in your editor
Ever needed to look at the Perl source of an installed module on your system? This works in 90% of cases.

External IP (raw data)

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"

Indicates the position of my monitor buttons
I often need to change the brightness of my monitor. The symbols of the sensor buttons are not illuminated and on a black background .... invisible! Now i use osd_cat instead of a torch ;-)

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


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