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Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one
faster ;) but your idea is really cool

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

Remotely sniff traffic and pass to snort
I have a small embedded linux device that I wanted to use for sniffing my external network, but I didn't want to recompile/cross-compile snort for the embedded platform. So I used tcpdump over ssh to pass all the traffic as pcap data to a "normal" Linux system that then takes the pcap data and passes it to snort for processing.

Validate date, also a date within a leap year
Important to know: a valid date will return 0, otherwise 1!

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

Edit a file on a remote host using vim

Sum columns from CSV column $COL

To get the CPU temperature continuously on the desktop
No need for a colon, and one less semicolon too. Also untested.

List NYC startups that are hiring

Random Number Between 1 And X
If X is 5, it will about a number between 1 and 5 inclusive. This works in bash and zsh. If you want between 0 and 4, remove the +1.


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