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Show your current network interface in use

List the largest directories & subdirectoties in the current directory sorted from largest to smallest.

Processes by CPU usage

Run netcat to server files of current folder

find sparse files
Prints the path/filename and sparseness of any sparse files (files that use less actual space than their total size because the filesystem treats large blocks of 00 bytes efficiently).

Fire CMD every time FILE (or directory) is updated (on *BSD)

Syntax Highlight your Perl code
This uses Text::Highlight to output the specified Perl file with syntax highlighting. A better alternative is my App::perlhl - find it on the CPAN: http://p3rl.org/App::perlhl

Find the package that installed a command

find all non-html files

pip install into current directory without virtualenv
For subsequent commands in the prefixed path: $ PYTHONPATH=$PWD/lib/python*/site-packages ./bin/pip --version


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