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Get the version of sshd on a remote system
I used this to confirm an upgrade to an SSH daemon was successful

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"

Rip audio from a video file.
Replace and accordingly.

Google verbatim search on your terminal
Put it in your ~/.bashrc usage: google word1 word2 word3... google '"this search gets quoted"'

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
#4345 also works under windows

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Calculates the date 2 weeks ago from Saturday the specified format.
Good for automating reports that need to run from between two dates.

Rename files in batch

clear the cache from memory

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"


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