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Display which user run process from given port name
Display which user run process from given port name

Hide or show Desktop Icons on MacOS
Hides all Files and Folders on the MacOS Desktop. To show files and folders, type "true" instead of "false". "Finder" at the end is case sensitive, "finder" doesn’t work

print a cpu of a process

Removing images by size
Removes all png files whose geometry is not 280x190 pixels

count how many times a string appears in a (source code) tree
grep -o puts each occurrence in a separate line

Tail -f at your own pace
The -s option allows you to specify the update interval

Compress blank lines

encode HTML entities
Encodes HTML entities from input (file or stdin) so it's possible to directly past the result to a blog or HTML source file.

Size (in bytes) of all RPM packages installed
This command will output the size of all RPM packages and string them together into one enormous addition command which will be calculated by the echo $(( ))

Compare a remote file with a local file

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