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Extract a remote tarball in the current directory without having to save it locally

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"

AWK command to extract log files between dates

Gentoo: Get the size of all installed packets, sorted
On a Gentoo system, this command will tell you which packets you have installed and sort them by how much space they consume. Good for finding out space-hogs when tidying up disk space.

vi a remote file
notice the double slash

prints line numbers
the sed way to print line numbers

Use Dell Service Tag $1 to Find Machine Model [Model Name and Model Number]
255 Max Characters CommandLineFu for $dellurl='http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/my_systems_info/en/details?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=hied&ServiceTag='

Convert (almost) any video file into webm format for online html5 streaming

AWK Calculator

List every file that has ever existed in a git repository
What was the name of that module we wrote and deleted about 3 months ago? windowing-something? $ git log --all --pretty=format:" " --name-only | sort -u | grep -i window


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