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Sort a character string
Sorts a character string, using common shell commands.

eavesdrop
Record off the microphone on a remote computer and listen to it live through your speakers locally.

Create incremental snapshots of individual folders using find and tar-gzip
Creates an incremental snapshot of individual folders.

delete files containing matching text
-r recursively -Z zero byte after each file name instead of the usual newline -l only filenames

remove empty lines

Check the hard disk vendor and model on Apple Mac

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

detach remote console for long running operations
Starts midnightcommander and allows you to detach the console; use ctrl-\ to detach Then at a later time you can reconnect using $ dtach -a /tmp/wires-mc In my experience dtach works much better for programs like irssi, mutt, mc, aptitude than screen does.

tar via network

Server load and process monitoring
In certain cases you mighy need to monitor the server load caused by certain process. For example HTTP, while stress testing apache using ab (apache benchmark) you may want to monitor the server status,load, # of spawned HTTP processes, # of established connections, # of connections in close wait state, apache memory footprint etc.


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