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aptitude easter eggs
this is a reference to Antoine de St. Exupery's "The Little Prince"

Open a manpage in the default (graphical) web browser
An easy alias for opening a manpage, nicely HTML formatted, in your set internet browser. If you get a "command exited with status 3" error you need to install groff.

A line across the entire width of the terminal
Use tput cols to find the width of the terminal and set it as the minimum field width.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Print the IPv4 address of a given interface

Quick and dirty RSS
runs an rss feed through sed replacing the closing tags with newlines and the opening tags with white space making it readable.

git remove files which have been deleted
It deletes all removed files, updates what was modified, and adds new files.

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"

dd with progress bar and statistics to gzipped image

Stat each file in a directory
Possible simplification of egrep-awk-sort with find and -exec with xargs.


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