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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"

slow down CPU and IO for process and its offsprings.

Convert ascii string to hex
Converts the ascii text to hex from bash. Check the sample output.

vi case insensitive search

List just the executable files (or directories) in current directory
With zsh.

whois surfing my web ?

HourGlass
Displays an animated hourglass for x amount of seconds

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.

Monitor a file with tail with timestamps added


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