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Create MySQL-Dump, copy db to other Server and upload the db.
This option makes a copy of your current db and via ssh it transfer to the server you specify and upload the database to the specific User & Password you specify (Note the db User & Pass, can be different from the one you use in the other server) If you are going to use "localhost" as your main db remove (-h) and youst add "localhost"

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"

Create a zip archive excluding all SVN folders

Create a temporary file
To create directory, use: $ tempdir=$(/bin/mktemp -d)

Dumping Audio stream from flv (using ffmpeg)

Encode a string using ROT47
This command will encode a string using the ROT47 cipher.

Recursively remove all empty directories

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Find all dot files and directories

yum -q list updates | tail -n+2

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