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drop first column of output by piping to this

Download Video & extract only a specific Time of it

get all Google ipv4 subnets for a iptables firewall for example
a bit shorter, parenthesis not needed but added for clarity

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Find the package that installed a command

Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)
for OS X

Learn the difference between single and double quotes

List all files in current dir and subdirs sorted by size
or $ tree -ifsF --noreport .|sort -n -k2|grep -v '/$' (rows presenting directory names become hidden)

Cap apt-get download speed
apt-get is pretty aggressive when it downloads, potentially hogging the bandwidth of your network. The 25 is in KB, change this to your needs.

diff two sorted files
Sees if two records differ in their entries, irrespective of order.


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