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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"

Show memory stats on Nexenta/Solaris

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Get rid from a blank display without reboot
Killall5 will kill your session and redirect to login screen. -Very useful when suffering display problems. -Can use F1-F6 -Need to login in the particular console if not already

Create a DOS floppy image
mount with: mount -t msdos -o loop ./floppy.img /tmp/mnt

Finds all files from / on down over specified size.
Very useful for finding all files over a specified size, such as out of control log files chewing up all available disk space. Fedora Core x specific version.

Shows the torrent file name along with the trackers url
Replace * with any filename matching glob or an individual filename

Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs
Simply change the years listed in the first seq, and it will print out all the months in that span of years that have Friday the 13ths in them.

Compare directories via diff
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070408062023352

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

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