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Open Port Check
also could specify port number: lsof -ni TCP:80

Send e-mail if host is 'dead' or not reachable
Cleaner with a mailto assignment in crontab (if the command fails you get an email): MAILTO=admin@example.com 10,30,50 * * * * ping -q -c1 -w3 192.168.0.14 >/dev/null

Remove grep itself from ps
When you 'ps|grep' for a given process, it turns out that grep itself appears as a valid line since it contains the RE/name you are looking for. To avoid grep from showing itself, simply insert some wildcard into process' name.

Count the number of pages of all PDFs in current directory and all subdirs, recursively

convert a mp4 video file to mp3 audio file (multiple files)

get rid of lines with non ascii characters
found here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9035939

Get Nyan'd
Get nyan'd

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
#4345 also works under windows

find an unused unprivileged TCP port
Some commands (such as netcat) have a port option but how can you know which ports are unused?

remove empty lines in place with backup
Modify file in place to remove empty lines and create a backup of the original with the extension .bak


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