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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"

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

Play random music from blip.fm

Git diff last two commits
How about this one ?

Test a serial connection
If the connection works you should see a "hello" on host A. If not: check your cabeling etc :-)

find large files

Graphically show percent of mount space used
Automatically drops mount points that have non-numeric sizes (e.g. /proc). Tested in bash on Linux and AIX.

Resets a terminal that has been messed up by binary input

Check whether laptop is running on battery or cable
If you want to do the same in OS X... grep as necessary for information you need....

Exclude .svn, .git and other VCS junk for a pristine tarball
~$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.20


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