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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"

Find commets in jpg files.
Finds comments in jpg files, but I can't figure out how to exclude (in output) files without comments.

switch case of a text file

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Extract JPEG images from a PDF document
This will extract all DCT format images from foo.pdf and save them in JPEG format (option -j) to bar-000.jpg, bar-001.jpg, bar-002.jpg, etc. Inspired by http://stefaanlippens.net/extract-images-from-pdf-documents

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"

Apply new patch for a directory (originDir)

Remove all HTML tags from a file

Get Cisco network information
This gives you lots of nifty Cisco network information like VLAN tag, port and switch information.

Colored SVN diff
Simple way to achieve a colored SVN diff


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