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Mute xterm
Disable the annoying beep in xterm

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"

Find only *.doc and *xls files on Windows partition
When using regex - there is no need to use -o and 2nd regex.

Rotate a pdf by 90 degrees CW

Find the package that installed a command

List only executables installed by a debian package
Maybe not clean with big package and too long argument. But return every file who can be executed.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Remote control for Rhythmbox on an Ubuntu Media PC
Note: you'll want to set up pub-key ssh auth. Gives you a quick means of changing volume/tracks/etc for rhythmbox on a remote machine. E.g.: rc --next # Play next track rc --print-playing # Grab the name rc --volume-down rc --help

Fill up disk space (for testing)
Put into some file. No special purpouse, just for fun...

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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