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shush MOTD
I'm annoyed by the boilerplate "don't login unless you are supposed messages in our environment" - this shuts them up.

View user activity per directory.
View all files opened by a user in specified directory. The +D option makes lsof search all sub-directories to complete depth, while ignoring symbolic links.

Grep recursively for a pattern and open all files that match, in order, in Vim, landing on 1st match

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

Chmod all directories (excluding files)
+ at the end means that many filenames will be passed to every chmod call, thus making it faster. And find own {} makes sure that it will work with spaces and other characters in filenames.

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

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"

RTFM function
Sometimes you don't have man pages only '-h' or '--help'.

syncronizing datas beetween two folder (A and B) excluding some directories in A (dir1 and dir2)


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