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Get the SAN (subjectAltName) of a site's certificate.
Based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13127352/checking-alternative-names-for-a-san-ssl-cert Replace "facebook.com" with the desired hostname.

reverse order of file

commentate specified line of a file
used when modify several configuration files with a single command

Get length of current playlist in xmms2

Display top 5 processes consuming CPU

Count the number of man pages per first character (a-z)
There once was a day I needed this info.

Generate a random password 30 characters long
Find random strings within /dev/urandom. Using grep filter to just Alphanumeric characters, and then print the first 30 and remove all the line feeds.

How to pull out lines between two patterns
This command will display all lines between 2 patterns: word-a and word-b useful for grepping command outputs from file

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"

Batch convert files to utf-8
taken from http://blog.ofirpicazo.com/linux/batch-convert-files-to-utf-8/

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