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Turn shell tracing and verbosity (set -xv) on/off with 1 command!
Turn shell tracing and verbosity (set -xv) on/off in any Bourne-type shell If either -x or -v is set, the function turns them both off. If neither is on, both are turned on.

Identify name and resolution of all jpgs in current directory

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"

list human readable files
include in the list human readable hidden files too: $ file .* *|grep 'ASCII text'|sort -rk2 more reliable command: $ ls|xargs file|grep 'ASCII text'|sort -rk2 and include hidden files: $ ls -a|xargs file|grep 'ASCII text'|sort -rk2

Capture data in ASCII. 1500 bytes
Sniffing traffic on port 80 only the first 1500 bytes

Download entire commandlinefu archive to single file
'jot' does not come with most *nix distros, so we need to use seq to make it work. This version tested good on Fedora 11.

Print diagram of user/groups
Parses /etc/group to "dot" format and pases it to "display" (imagemagick) to show a usefull diagram of users and groups (don't show empty groups).

tcpdump sniff pop3,imap,smtp and http

Leap year calculation

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


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