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FizzBuzz One-liner

list files recursively by size

Stop Flash from tracking everything you do.
Brute force way to block all LSO cookies on a Linux system with the non-free Flash browser plugin. Works just fine for my needs. Enjoy.

1+2-3+4-5+6-7 Series

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"

Awk one-liner that sorts a css file by selector

Convert AVI to iPhone MP4
Fir3net.com

The program listening on port 8080 through IPv6
Gets the application's name that's listening from the port 8080 through IPv6

Update Ogg Vorbis file comments
The "vorbiscomment" utility lets you update information such as artist names and song and album tags in an Ogg Vorbis file. You can use this command to fix any mistakes that were made when ripping an album.

shuffle lines via perl
Same, without modules... Probably smarter option: just use the shuf command or even sort -R.


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