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quickly backup or copy a file with bash

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"

Backup all MySQL Databases to individual files

Convert encoding from cp1252 (MS Windows) to UTF-8 on source code files

Get your outgoing IP address

Make a DVD ISO Image from a VIDEO_TS folder on MacOSX
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Put readline into vi mode
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save man-page as pdf

Create a html of information about you harddisk
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Hide files in ls, by adding support for .hidden files!
Sometimes I would like to see hidden files, prefix with a period, but some files or folders I never want to see (and really wish I could just remove all together).

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