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Do some learning...
no loop, only one call of grep, scrollable ("less is more", more or less...)

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 files recursively by size

Read aloud a text file in Mac OS X

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

Figure out what shell you're running

Ultimate current directory usage command
Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals to differentiate files and directories

change up n directories
Change n directories up, without parameters change one up

ThePirateBay.org torrent search
This one-liner greps first 30 direct URLs for .torrent files matching your search querry, ordered by number of seeds (descending; determined by the second number after your querry, in this case 7; for other options just check the site via your favorite web-browser). You don't have to care about grepping the torrent names as well, because they are already included in the .torrent URL (except for spaces and some other characters replaced by underscores, but still human-readable). Be sure to have some http://isup.me/ macro handy (someone often kicks the ethernet cables out of their servers ;) ). I've also coded a more user-friendly ash (should be BASH compatible) script, which also lists the total size of download and number of seeds/peers (available at http://saironiq.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-shell-scripts-4-thepiratebayorg.html - may need some tweaking, as it was written for a router running OpenWrt and transmission). Happy downloading!

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.


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