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Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX
not shown ifconfig error

Print a list of standard error codes and descriptions.
Written by jmcnamara Taken from http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=274896

oneliner to transfer a directory using ssh and tar
this will tar/send/untrar a whole directory.

list files recursively by size

Show what a given user has open using lsof

Show the date of easter
ncal -e shows the date of Easter this year. ncal -e YYYY shows the date of Easter in a given year. ncal -o works the same way, but for Orthodox dates.

Find out current working directory of a process
This is an alternative to another command using two xargs. If it's a command you know there's only one of, you can just use: $ ls -l /proc/$(pgrep COMMAND)/cwd

Show every subdirectory (zsh)

Find top 10 largest files in /var directory (subdirectories and hidden files included )
Should work even when very large files exist.

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