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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"

Recursively remove .svn directories from a local repository

Print the 16 most recent RPM packages installed in newest to oldest order

Sort specific lines while editing within vi
Sort lines within vi editor. In this example sort lines 33-61 and lines 4-9 asciibetically.

Watch your freebox flux, through a other internet connection (for French users)
You can watch channels of your freebox, everywhere. With " vlc http://your-ip:12345 " on the client and ncurses vlc interface on the host. et voila

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

Convert a date to timestamp
Simple way to get a timestamp from a date

move you up one directory quickly
In bash, this turns on auto cd. If a command is just a directory name, it cd's into that directory.

Display the output of a command from the first line until the first instance of a regular expression.
If BREs can be used, this sed version will also get the job done.


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