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Stripping ^M at end of each line for files
just deletes to rogue CR from dos files, and tr is always available.

coloured tail
tail with coloured output with the help of perl - need more colours? here is a colour table: http://www.tuxify.de/?p=23

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"

Output requirements.txt packages pinned to latest version
Given a requirements.txt file with unpinned package names, output the packages pinned to the latest version. Handy to copy/paste back into your requirements.txt when you start a new project. Note that this will download packages but not install them.

Get your commandlinefu points (upvotes - downvotes)
This will calculate the your commandlinefu votes (upvotes - downvotes). Hopefully this will boost my commandlinefu points.

Get a range of SVN revisions from svn diff and tar gz them
Handy when you need to create a list of files to be updated when subversion is not available on the remote host. You can take this tar file, and upload and extract it where you need it. Replace M and N with the revisions specific to yours. Make sure you do this from an updated (svn up) working directory.

Serve current directory tree at http://$HOSTNAME:8000/

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Like top, but for files

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

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