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Monitoring file handles used by a particular process
-r : repeat mode

Find the package that installed a command

tell if a port is in use
if you don't do --numeric-ports, netstat will try to resolve them to names

Run iMacros from terminal
Run iMacros from terminal

Set the hardware date and time based on the system date

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

Truncate long strings in columns and use custom header names
Using the --table-truncate ( -T ) option, you can specify the columns you will allow to be truncated. This helps when you have some columns that are unusually long, or a small terminal window. In this example we will print out the /etc/passwd file in columns. We are using a colon as our separator ( -s: ), defining that we want table output ( -t ), defining the column names ( -N ) and allowing the column NAME to be truncated ( -T ).

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

Re-read partition table on specified device without rebooting system (here /dev/sda).

Numeric zero padding file rename
rename file name with fixed length nomeric format pattern


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