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See The MAN page for the last command
This works in bash. The "!!:0" limits the argument to man to be only the first word of the last command. "!!:1" would be the second, etc.

Get fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) for IP address with failure and multiple detection

How to search for files and open all of them in tabbed vim editor.
Opening several files at once in Vim can be very easy in connection with find command.

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

Search some text from all files inside a directory

Kills a process that is locking a file.
Useful when you're trying to unmount a volume and other sticky situations where a rogue process is annoying the hell out of you.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Get your external IP address
Request all information about my IP address in json format

Rename files in batch

run command on a group of nodes in parallel
The pee command is in the moreutils package.


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