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Current running process ordered by %CPU
Useful to detect which process is causing system loads. It shows process PID so as we can take further actions.

Find the package that installed a command

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Stream audio over ssh
This one doesn't need to convert to wav.

Insert a comment on command line for reminder
Comments can be used directly on the command line so I can save in the history a brief description of what command does.

drop first column of output by piping to this

search for a file in PATH

Load file into RAM (cache) for faster accessing for repeated usage
Best result when file size less than half of RAM size

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

Pipe text from shell to windows cut and paste buffer using PuTTY and XMing.
Set up X forwarding in PuTTY, with X display location set to :0.0 Launch PuTTY ssh session. Launch Xming. Make sure that display is set to :0.0 (this is default). $ echo "I'm going to paste this into WINDERS XP" | xsel -i will insert the string into the windows cut and paste buffer. Thanks to Dennis Williamson at stackoverflow.com for sharing...


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