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Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
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Increment the filename of png in a given directory by one

Fast tape rewind
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scp file from hostb to hostc while logged into hosta
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Cleanup firefox's database.

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Find usb device
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Transcode .flac to .wav with gstreamer
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