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Capture data in ASCII. 1500 bytes
Sniffing traffic on port 80 only the first 1500 bytes

create ICO file with more than one image
requires imagemagick. -background transparent is of course optional.

Remove the first character of each line in a file

Play ISO/DVD-files and activate dvd-menu and mouse menu clicks.

Export unpushed files list

Display unique values of a column
Find the unique values of a column utilizing awk. Credits goes to here (posted by "era"): http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/77138-awk-print-distinct-col-values.html

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"

List programs with open ports and connections

vim read stdin

Scrape commands from commandline fu's 1st page
just bored here at work ... if your are daring ... add '| bash' .... enjoy require 'ruby'


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