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Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Find the package that installed a command

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"

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"

Check if system is 32bit or 64bit

Notepad in a browser
A commandline version of the notepad in a browser: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/12161/notepad-in-a-browser-type-this-in-the-url-bar All credit to the origional author of this fantastic command, whos only failing as most of the comments pointed out was that it wasn't a command... well, now its a command. Send all upvotes to dtlp747.

get a rough estimate about how much disk space is used by all the currently installed debian packages
The vaule is expressed in megabytes

List PHP-FPM pools by total CPU usage

Rip audio from a video file.
Replace and accordingly.

Extract raw URLs from a file
you can also use cut instead of awk. less powerful but probably faster. ;)

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