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The program listening on port 8080 through IPv6

Change host name
With sed you can replace strings on the fly.

Poor man's ntpdate
If you don't have netcat, you can use curl.

add static arp entry to default gateway, arp poison protection

check the status of 'dd' in progress (OS X)
Sends SIGINFO to the process. This is a BSD feature OS X inherited. You must have the terminal window executing dd selected when entering CTRL + T for this to work.

Replace spaces in a filename with hyphens
As long as you have perl based rename. You can check: =$ rename --help Unknown option: help Usage: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames] That's the good one.

Ultimate current directory usage command
An NCurses version of the famous old 'du' unix command

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

delete command line last word

Watch the progress of 'dd'
run this in another terminal, were xxxx is the process ID of the running dd process. the progress will report on the original terminal that you ran dd on


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