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Find and delete thunderbird's msf files to make your profile work quickly again.

list files recursively by size

Open the last file you edited in Vim.

Use top to monitor only all processes with the same name fragment 'foo'
Like command 10870, but no need for sed

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Throttle download speed (at speed x )
Throttle download speed $aria2c --max-download-limit=100K file.metalink Throttle upload speed $aria2c --max-upload-limit=100K file.torrent

Ctrl+S Ctrl+Q terminal output lock and unlock
These are simple shortcuts to pause and continue terminal output, works in most terminals and screen multiplexers like screen. You can use it to catch something if things change too fast, and scroll with Shift + PgUp PgDown. On linux console ScrollLock can also be used.

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"

How to run a command on a list of remote servers read from a file
The important thing to note in this command, is the "-n" flag.


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