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check open ports without netstat or lsof

Display unique values of a column
Find the unique values of a column utilizing awk. Credits goes to here (posted by "era"): http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/77138-awk-print-distinct-col-values.html

Close a hanging ssh session
~ is the ssh control character. If you type it after a newline, you can example force close the ssh session. , ~, then . If you want more info, type ~? when you are connecting using ssh. Very useful to kill of any hanging ssh sessions when nothing else works.

Decreasing the cdrom device speed
Decreasing the cdrom device speed may be more comfortable to watch films (for example)

Rotate all jpeg images in current folder, rename them to EXIF datetime and set files timestamp to EXIF datetime

Massive change of file extension (bash)
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tcpdump sniff pop3,imap,smtp and http

grep apache access.log and list IP's by hits and date - sorted

Set laptop display brightness
Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

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