Commands using wc (172)

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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"

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Increase mplayer maximum volume
use '0' and '9' to increase/decrease volume. this is useful on laptops with low speaker volume.

Analyse an Apache access log for the most common IP addresses
This uses awk to grab the IP address from each request and then sorts and summarises the top 10.

Kill any lingering ssh processes

du and sort to find the biggest directories in defined filesystem
This command give a human readable result without messing up the sorting.

Convert multiple flac files to mp3
make sure that flac and lame are installed sudo apt-get install lame flac

disable history for current shell session
this will cause any commands that you have executed in the current shell session to not be written in your bash_history file upon logout

Recursively remove directory with many files quickly
rsync'ing an empty directory over a directory to be deleted recursively is much faster than using rm -rf, for various reasons. Relevant only for directories with really a lot of files.

List installed deb packages by size


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