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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"

recursively remove BOM

Unlock your KDE4 session remotely (for boxes locked by KDE lock utility)
Do the unlock KDE screen saver locked session with lightdm display manager used in Kubuntu 12.10 +

shell function to make gnu info act like man.
For those who hate navigating info pages, a shell function which will dump the contents to stdout, then page it through less, thus acting like 'man'.

nmap port scanning
TCP Connect scanning for localhost and network 192.168.0.0/24

search installed files of package, that doesn't remember his name well. On rpm systems
rpm, sometimes, is not wildcard friendly. To search files installed from package this could be useful. change PACKAGENAME to any package do you want to search

Pick a random line from a file

"What the hell is running on?!" Easily snoop your system's RAM consumption
Works on most unixes, on OpenBSD replace the "-g" parameter at the sort with a "-n".

View dmesg output in human readable format


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