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Connect via sftp to a specific port
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Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

easily find megabyte eating files or directories

Exclude svn directories with grep
exclude-dir option requires grep 2.5.3

Capitalize first letter of each word in a string
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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"

Protect your eye
Redshift will adjust the color temperature and protects eye at night -b : will adjust the brightness

A sorted summary of disk usage including hidden files and folders
Same result as with 'du -ks .[^.]* * | sort -n' but with size outputs in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)

Write comments to your history.
A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.

send tweets to twitter (and get user details)
great for outputting tweets from cron jobs and batch scripts

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