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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"

Doing some floating point calculations with rounding (e.g. at the 3rd decimal)

Download all .key files from your android device to your pc.

benchmark web server with apache benchmarking tool
-n 9000 : Number of requests to perform for the benchmarking session -c 900 : Number of multiple requests to perform at a time

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Find files with lines that do not match a pattern
This one would be much faster, as it's only one executed command.

Exclude multiple columns using AWK
Print all columns except the 1st and 3rd.

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 search for large files. Show size and location.

Substitute audio track of video file using mencoder
Creates a new video file with video stream copied from input file and a different audio stream


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