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Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one
faster ;) but your idea is really cool

Sort a character string
Sorts a character string, using common shell commands.

converting vertical line to horizontal line

most used unix commands

Generate a correct mac addr.
1) The last sed expression ensures the unicast/multicast bit is set to zero 2) The greedy space replacements are for portability across UNIX seds

Vim: Switch from Horizontal split to Vertical split
This allows to switch from horizontal to vertical split, putting the current buffer on the right side of the vertical split. To put it on the right use ^W-H. In a similar way, to switch from Vertical to Horizontal, do ^W-J (for bottom) and ^W-K (for top), but you vimers all guessed that one already :P

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"

Adding Prefix to File name
Good old bracket expansion :-) For large numbers of files, "rename" will spare you the for-loop, or the find/exec...

Convert Youtube videos to MP3
Make your own MP3s from Youtube videos.

Pipe STDOUT to vim
The hyphen tells vim to open from STDOUT - saves having to create temporary files.

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