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Make backups recurse through directories

create dir tree
create tree of dir's in one command

Read a tcpdump file and count SYN packets to port 80, Order column by destination.

list all files in a directory, sorted in reverse order by modification time, use file descriptors.
It's both silly, and infinitely useful. Especially useful in logfile directories where you want to know what file is being updated while troubleshooting.

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

unpack all rars in current folder

Remove a line in a text file. Useful to fix
In this case it's better do to use the dedicated tool

Find if the command has an alias

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"

Center text in console with simple pipe like
Center the output text in max line length of buffered output pipe;


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