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get rid of lines with non ascii characters
found here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9035939

password generator
make password randomly, default 8 chars, using bash3.X only, no external program.

grep for minus (-) sign
Use flag "--" to stop switch parsing

Find files and calculate size of result in shell
Find files and calculate size with stat of result in shell

Backup your hard drive with dd
This will create an exact duplicate image of your hard drive that you can then restore by simply reversing the "if" & "of" locations. $ sudo dd if=/media/disk/backup/sda.backup of=/dev/sda Alternatively, you can use an SSH connection to do your backups: $dd if=/dev/sda | ssh user@ssh.server.com dd of=~/backup/sda.backup

calculate md5 sums for every file in a directory tree
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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"

website recursive offline mirror with wget
website recursive offline mirror with wget

Check Ram Speed and Type in Linux
from http://maysayadkaba.blogspot.com/2008/08/linux-check-ram-speed-and-type.html

Find files containing string and open in vim
I often use "vim -p" to open in tabs rather than buffers.

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