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Merge PDFs into single file

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir
Taken from here: http://linsovet.com/directory-usage-size-sorted-list

Record active input of soundcard to file.wav
You'll need sox package in Debian/Ubuntu.

return the latest kernel version from a Satellite / Spacewalk server software channel

useless load
check your load with top... Start more of these jobs to get an multi-core cpu busy...

resume download using curl

Prefix every line with a timestamp
Useful to add a timestamp to every line printed to stdout. You can use `-Ins` instead of `-Iseconds` if you want more precision.

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"

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