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Send remote command output to your local clipboard
This command will copy command's output into your local clipboard

Rename files in batch

Automatically create a rar archive
This command creates a rar archive from all files in the current folder and names the archive after the folder name.

Launch firefox on a remote linux server
Actually 'firefox' is a script that then launches the 'firefox-bin' executable. You need to specify the 'no-remote' option in order to launch remote firefox instead of your local one (this drove me crazy time ago)

Limit the transfer rate and size of data over a pipe
This example will close the pipe after transferring 100MB at a speed of 3MB per second.

Find all file extension in current dir.

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"

Print all fields in a file/output from field N to the end of the line

rename / move Uppercase filenames to lowercase filenames current directory
move filename/rename filenames with Uppercase to lowercase in current directory

List all groups and the user names that were in each group
"cut" the user names from /etc/passwd and then running a loop over them.


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