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Test file system type before further commands execution
Exclude 400 client hosts with NFS auto-mounted home directories. Easily modified for inclusion in your scripts.

distribution specific information

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"

Quick HTML image gallery from folder contents
Setting: You have a lot of jpg files in a directory. Maybe your public_html folder which is readable on the net because of Apache's mod_userdir. All those files from the current folder will be dropped into a file called gallery.html as image tags that can be viewed within a web browser locally or or over the Internet. Original: $find . -iname "*.jpg" -exec echo "" >> gallery.html \;

quickly backup or copy a file with bash
This inserts timestamp instead of .bak extension.

Get the IP address of a machine. Just the IP, no junk.
Why use many different utilities all piped together, when you only need two?

Rsync a directory excluding pesky .svn dirs

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Play all the music in a folder, on shuffle
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