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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.

diff two sorted files
Sees if two records differ in their entries, irrespective of order.

Getting information about model no. of computer
This command gives a model information of a computer. Also useful in determining the host is a VM machine or actual physical machine.

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"

Forwards connections to your port 2000 to the port 22 of a remote host via ssh tunnel

find all non-html files

Check whether IPv6 is enabled
Checks whether IPv6 is enabled system-wide by reading from procfs.

Display connections histogram
Displays a connection histogram of active tcp connections. Works even better under an alias. Thanks @Areis1 for sharing this one.

perl insert character on the first line on your file

Rename files in batch


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