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Get the dir listing of an executable without knowing its location

whois filtering the important information

which process is accessing the CDROM

Restore a local drive from the image on remote host via ssh

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Find the biggest files on your hard drive

Updating to Fedora 11

simple du command to give size of next level of subfolder in MB
If you're only using -m or -k, you will need to remember they are either in Megabyte or kilobyte forms. So by using -B, it gives you the unit of the size measurement, which helps you from reading the result faster. You can try with -B K as well.

Ping sweep without NMAP
Waits for all pings to complete and returns ip with mac address

Get all links from commandlinefu front page
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