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Find the package that installed a command

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"

Get movie length

Convert spaces in file names to underscores

Display which distro is installed
Works on nearly all linux distros

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Get just the IP for a hostname

Create a file of a given size in linux
if the fs support sparse file,using truncate can create sparse file. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file

Check difference between two file directories recursively

Grep for word in directory (recursive)
greps for search word in directory and below (defaults to cd). -i case insensitive -n shows line number -H shows file name


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