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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"

Throttle download speed (at speed x )
Throttle download speed $aria2c --max-download-limit=100K file.metalink Throttle upload speed $aria2c --max-upload-limit=100K file.torrent

Another way to see the network interfaces
Like many other thing in Linux ,you can see the same thing in different way.

count IPv4 connections per IP
usefull in case of abuser/DoS attacks.

Find out my Linux distribution name and version

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word passphrase (fast)
Some snippets posted are slow on big dictionaries, this one is fast.

Speed up launch of liferea
If you use liferea frequently, you will see obvious speedup after you executed this command.

Randomize lines in a file
Works in sort (GNU coreutils) 7.4, don't know when it was implemented but sometime the last 6 years.

Copy with progress


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