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Print all lines between two line numbers
Print all lines between two line numbers This command uses sed(1) to print all lines between two known line numbers in a file. Useful for seeing output in a log file, where the line numbers are known. The above command will print all lines between, and including, lines 3 and 6.

Read funny developer comments in the Linux source tree
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Smiley Face Bash Prompt
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Copy a file using pv and watch its progress
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Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
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online MAC address lookup

Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX
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