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check open ports without netstat or lsof

Force logout after 24 hours idle
Shell timeout variables (TMOUT) can be very liberal about what is classified as 'activity', like having an editor open. This command string will terminate the login shell for an user with more than a day's idle time.

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"

cp the file
Copy the file with the given .extension at the source file's location. Eliminates the typing of long paths again and again.

Record camera's output to a avi file
video.avi is the resulting file. Press Ctrl+c to stop the recording. You can change the OVC option to another to record into a different format.

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Get technical and tag information about a video or audio file
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. (sudo apt install mediainfo)

list files recursively by size

Decode a MIME message
will decode a mime message. usefull when you receive some email and file attachment that cant be read.

Capitalize first letter of each word in a string - A ruby alternative
"-n" loops around ; "-e" executes the given quoted string ; "$_" is the current line ; "split" creates an array on white space; each item of the array is "collected" to be then "capitalized" ; the array is "joined" back into a string.


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