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Find if $b is in $a in bash
Find if $b is in $a in bash

Grab just the title of a youtube video
There's another version on here that uses GET but some people don't have lwp-request, so here's an alternative. It's also a little shorter and should work with most youtube URLs since it truncates at the first &

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"

See where a shortened url takes you before click

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

Remove all zero size files from current directory (not recursive)

Enter your ssh password one last time
Enter your ssh public key in the remote end for future key-based authentication. Just type your password one last time. The next time you should be able to login with the public key. If you don't have a key, generate one with ssh-keygen. Requires Bourne-compatible shell in the remote end.

Delete all but latest file in a directory
Useful for deleting old unused log files.

list files recursively by size

Slow Down Command Output
( Or $ ls -lat|lolcat -a if you like it in technicolor - apt install lolcat if needed )


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