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Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usage
ps returns all running processes which are then sorted by the 4th field in numerical order and the top 10 are sent to STDOUT.

grep for tabs without using Ctrl-V trick
-P tells grep to use perl regex matches (only works on the GNU grep as far as I know.)

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Signals list by NUMBER and NAME
This command seems to achieve the similar/same goal.

Prints new content of files
Useful to e.g. keep an eye on several logfiles.

Get the beats per minute from an audio track
Requires bpm-tools https://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/bpm-tools/

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)

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"

Fix the vi zsh bindings on ubuntu
Use sed to comment out any up/down bindings in zsh

Calculate pi to an arbitrary number of decimal places


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