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Strace all signals processes based on a name ( The processes already started... ) with bash built-in
Especially for sysadmins when they don't want to waste time to add -p flag on the N processes of a processname. In the old school, you did ; $ pgrep processname and typing strace -f -p 456 -p 678 -p 974... You can add -f argument to the function. That way, the function will deal with pgrep to match the command-line. Example : $ processname -f jrockit

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"

Determine what version of bind is running on a dns server.
Due to the recent dynamic update vulnerability with bind, I was forced to dig a little deeper into dig...

get the top 10 longest filenames

Gets a random Futurama quote from /.

Find Files That Exceed a Specified Size Limit

List docker volumes by container

Find and copy files from subdirectories to the current directory

Watch movies in your terminal
requires mplayer

Prepend a text to a file.
Prepend text to a file. It doen't need temporary files, ed or sed.


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