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kill some process (same as others) but parsing to a variable
Kills a process matching program. I suggest using $ pgrep -fl program to avoid over-killings Nice the following: kills all bash process owned by guest $ pkill -9 -f bash -u guest

Find the package that installed a command

show current directory
Opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application.

find largest file in /var
find largest file in /var

Capture video of a linux desktop
This will grab the image from desktop, starting with the upper-left corner at x=100, y=200 with a width and height of 1024?768.

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"

grep apache access.log and list IP's by hits and date - sorted

Scans for open ports using telnet

Replace duplicate files by hardlinks
This variation can handle file paths containing spaces.

watch your network load on specific network interface
-n means refresh frequency you could change eth0 to any interface you want, like wlan0

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