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Create a new file

Ruby - nslookup against a list of IP`s or FQDN`s
This version uses host and no ruby.

Join a folder full of split files
If you use newsgroups then you'll have come across split files before. Joining together a whole batch of them can be a pain so this will do the whole folder in one.

shell function to make gnu info act like man.
For those who hate navigating info pages, a shell function which will dump the contents to stdout, then page it through less, thus acting like 'man'.

download and unpack tarball without leaving it sitting on your hard drive

Produce a pseudo random password with given length in base 64

Backup your hard drive with dd
This will create an exact duplicate image of your hard drive that you can then restore by simply reversing the "if" & "of" locations. $ sudo dd if=/media/disk/backup/sda.backup of=/dev/sda Alternatively, you can use an SSH connection to do your backups: $dd if=/dev/sda | ssh user@ssh.server.com dd of=~/backup/sda.backup

get useful statistics from tcpdump (sort by ip)
We can get useful statistics from tcpdump with this simple command. Thanks "Babak Farrokhi" to teaching me this ;)

Function to split a string into an array
It works as a method applicated to a variable, converts the string variable into an array

Insert the last argument of the previous command

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