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The wisdom of Cave Johnson
There's been a similar Futurama thing around for a while, which grabs a quote from the /. headers [curl -Ism3 slashdot.org | egrep "^X-(F|B|L)" | cut -d \- -f 2- | fmt -w $(tput cols)]. Same deal, but more likely to stop working when someone forgets to pay the bill on the domain. Until then: Cave Johnson!

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"

Send command to all terminals in a screen session

Label EXT2/EXT3 File System

Remove everything except that file
it will remove everything except the file names matching you can use also use wildcards

last.fm rss parser
you can just use one awk script to parse the rss feed. No need to pipe so many awk's and sed's. Its ugly and inefficient.

Access folder "-"
If you try to access cd - you go to the last folder you were in.

Get size of terminal
See the cols and lines and make sure the console it correctly configured for the screen size.

Find the package that installed a command


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