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For finding out if something is listening on a port and if so what the daemon is.

Group OR'd commands where you expect only one to work
Something to stuff in an alias when you are working in multiple environments. The double-pipe OR will fall through until one of the commands succeeds, and the rest won't be executed. Any STDERR will fall out, but the STDOUT from the correct command will bubble out of the parenthesis to the less command, or some other command you specify.

Recursively chmod all dirs to 755 and all files to 644

Rename files in batch

View a file with less, starting at the end of the file
The same as typing 'less filename' then 'G' or '>' or the END key. Comes in handy with shell scripts or aliases: alias weblog='less +G /var/log/httpd/access_log' alias errlog='less +G /var/log/httpd/error_log'

Complex string encoding with sed
Pipe | avoid escaping occurences problems in using sed and make it easier to use

Show crontabs for all users
This is flatcaps tweaked command to make it work on SLES 11.2

Sum columns from CSV column $COL
More of the same but with more elaborate perl-fu :-)

which process has a port open

create a new script, automatically populating the shebang line, editing the script, and making it executable.
The first argument is the interpreter for your script, the second argument is the name of the script to create.


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