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Create a tar archive using 7z compression
Using 7z to create archives is OK, but when you use tar, you preserve all file-specific information such as ownership, perms, etc. If that's important to you, this is a better way to do it.

Validate all XML files in the current directory and below
If everything validates, there's no output. Can be handy to run on a cron job set up to email output.

delete files containing matching text
-r recursively -Z zero byte after each file name instead of the usual newline -l only filenames

simplest calculator

Like top but for files
Like top, but for files

Testing hard disk writing speed

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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"

Show what PID is listening on port 80 on Linux

Draw kernel module dependancy graph.
parse "lsmod" output to "dot" format and pass it to "display". Without perl!


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