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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"

Print info about your real user.
To get your effective user: whoami

Convert flv without re-encoding

video thumbnail gallery
thumbnail gallery of video using totem

SSH connection through host in the middle

network throughput test
On the machine acting like a server, run: $ iperf -s On the machine acting like a client, run: $ iperf -c ip.add.re.ss where ip.add.re.ss is the ip or hostname of the server.

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Display the standard deviation of a column of numbers with awk

ssh tunnel with auto reconnect ability

Commit command to history file immedeately after execution
This could be added to .bashrc. Background: Linux usually saves history only on clean exit of shell. If shell ends unclean, history is lost. Also numerous terminals might confuse their history. With this variable set, history is immedeately written, accessible to all other open shells.


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