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Solaris get PID socket
Command line to get which PID is opening a socket on IP and PORT. Only useful under Solaris.

Compare a remote dir with a local dir
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List processes sorted by CPU usage

find your release version of your ubuntu / debian distro

exclude a column with cut
Show all columns except 5th. This might help you save some typing if you are trying to exclude some columns from the output.

Pack up some files into a tarball on a remote server without writing to the local filesystem
I recently found myself with a filesystem I couldn't write to and a bunch of files I had to get the hell out of dodge, preferably not one at a time. This command makes it possible to pack a bunch of files into a single archive and write it to a remote server.

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

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

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