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Kill all processes that don't belong to root/force logoff
explanation: grep -- displays process ids -v -- negates the matching, displays all but what is specified in the other options -u -- specifies the user to display, or in this case negate The process loops through all PIDs that are found by pgrep, then orders a forced kill to the processes in numerical order, effectively killing the parent processes first including the shells in use which will force the users to logout. Tested on Slackware Linux 12.2 and Slackware-current

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"

Edit Camera Model in metadata:

Make a playlistfile for mpg321 or other CLI player
A short variant if you have only one directory whit only audio files in it.

Pronounce an English word using Dictionary.com
This one uses dictionary.com

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Mirror rubygems.org
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems-mirror/issues/20

cd to (or operate on) a file across parallel directories
This is useful for quickly jumping around branches in a file system, or operating on a parellel file. This is tested in bash. cd to (substitute in PWD, a for b) where PWD is the bash environmental variable for the "working directory"

attach to bash shell in the last container you started

Join a folder full of split files
If you use newsgroups then you'll have come across split files before. Joining together a whole batch of them can be a pain so this will do the whole folder in one.


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