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Best SSH options for X11 forwarding
grabbed from: http://blog.samat.org/2006/05/08/best-ssh-options-for-x11-forwarding

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"

Concatenate video files to YouTube ready output
Takes two input video files and an external audio track and encodes them together to an MPEG-4 DivX output video file with the correct size ready for uploading.

exit if another instance is running

Kill any lingering ssh processes
Also ignoring "sshd" server is necessary since you should not kill ssh server processes.

Send test prints to networked printer.
This will send a test print job to a networked printer.

Determine next available UID
better with accounts on ldap

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Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Recursivly search current directory for files larger than 100MB


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