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Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
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Show demo of toilet fonts
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zsh only: access a file when you don't know the path, if it is in PATH
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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"

Testing php configuration

List only directories, one per line

Run the Firefox Profile Manager
even when another instance is already open. Great for testing purposes when you need to be 2 people at once on the same site.

Mac OS-X-> copy and paste things to and from the clipboard from the shell
Copies whatever is piped to the pbcopy command to the clipboard. pbpaste ... well pastes whats on the clipboard.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS
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