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Removes file with a dash in the beginning of the name

Smart `cd`.. cd to the file directory if you try to cd to a file
This little function will smarten 'cd'. If you try to cd into a file (which I guess we all have done), it cd's into the directory of that file instead. I had to use nesten if's, to get cd to still work with 'cd' (to get to $HOME), 'cd -' (to get to last directory), and 'cd foo\ bar'.

Get a regular updated list of zombies
to omit "grep -v", put some brackets around a single character

Bash: escape '-' character in filename

List the files any process is using
List the files a process is using.

Rename files in batch

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"

Mount a .iso file in UNIX/Linux
"-o loop" lets you use a file as a block device

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)

Transforms a file to all uppercase.
Transforms a file to all uppercase.


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