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Convert spaces in file names to underscores

Rename all files in lower case
rename is a really powerfull to, as its name suggests, rename files

Find files with root setuids settings

Store dirs to later be changed to independant of the last directory you were in. Also with managment tools.
Check out: help dirs help pushd help popd -- Cheers!

Join lines split with backslash at the end
Joins each line that end with backslash (common way to mark line continuation in many languages) with the following one while removing the backslash.

CLI Visual Apache Web Log Analyzer
GoAccess is an open source real-time Apache web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly. http://goaccess.prosoftcorp.com/

which program is this port belongs to ?
Sometimes you need to use a port that is already opened by some program , and you don't know who to "kill" for it to release - so, now you do !

Continue a current job in the background
Continue a current job in the background and detach it from current terminal

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

The program listening on port 8080 through IPv6


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