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Enable automatic typo correction for directory names

Monitor RAID IO Usage
Shows the IO of the raid sync

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"

Skip filenames with control characters, a.k.a tab,newline etc

list files in mtime order
Simple but useful; list files in the current directory in mtime order. Useful if you've been working on something and then take a day or two off.

Every Nth line position # (AWK)
A better way to show the file lines 3n + 1

Combine two mp3's or more into 1 long mp3
This just combines multiple mp3's into one mp3 file. Basically it is a easy join for mp3's

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Find default gateway

Resets a terminal that has been messed up by binary input

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