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check open ports without netstat or lsof

Throttle download speed (at speed x )
Axel --max-speed=x, -s x You can specify a speed (bytes per second) here and Axel will try to keep the average speed around this speed. Useful if you don?t want the program to suck up all of your bandwidth.

Sort files by date
Show you the list of files of current directory sorted by date youngest to oldest, remove the 'r' if you want it in the otherway.

untar undo

Search for a string inside all files in the current directory

List just the executable files (or directories) in current directory
A bit shorter ;)

Who needs pipes?
or: C

Copy recursivelly files of specific filetypes
Copying only wmv and mpg files recursively from to

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"

Get ElasticSearch configuration and version details
Replace localhost:9200 with your server location and port. This is the ElasticSearch's default setup for local instances.


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