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check open ports without netstat or lsof

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"

get all pdf and zips from a website using wget
If the site uses https, use: $ wget --reject html,htm --accept pdf,zip -rl1 --no-check-certificate https-url

Top 10 Memory Processes
It displays the top 10 processes sorted by memory usage

Find the package that installed a command

listen to an offensive fortune
or replace "espeak" with "festival --tts" if you like festival better when your buddy leaves his computer unlocked use "crontab" or "at" to play at some time that would be most embarassing (during his next sales presentation) $ echo "fortune -o | espeak" | at now + 30 minutes of course you can exclude the "-o" for non offensive fortunes, or if you don't have offensive fortunes installed

Fix the vi zsh bindings on ubuntu
Use sed to comment out any up/down bindings in zsh

synchronicity
The British Government entering in the Gregorian era.

python2 -m CGIHTTPServer
In case you need to test some CGI scripts this does the job. It also has the functionality of a http server. Enjoy!

Execute a command without saving it in the history
Prepending one or more spaces to your command won't be saved in history. Useful for pr0n or passwords on the commandline. Tested on BASH.


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