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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"

set wallpaper on windowmaker in one line
set directly the wallpaper on windowmaker , use this command with display of imagemagick :)

Use wget to download one page and all it's requisites for offline viewing

List your installed Chromium extensions (with url to each page)
Gives you a list for all installed chrome (chromium) extensions with URL to the page of the extension. With this you can easy add a new Bookmark folder called "extensions" add every URL to that folder, so it will be synced and you can access the names from every computer you are logged in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Only tested with chromium, for chrome you maybe have to change the find $PATH.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

cat a bunch of small files with file indication
If you have a bunch of small files that you want to cat to read, you can cat each alone (boring); do a cat *, and you won't see what line is for what file, or do a grep . *. "." will match any string and grep in multifile mode will place a $filename: before each matched line. It works recursively too!!

Get File Names from touch commands
retrieve file names back from touch commands for them

alt + 1 .
alt + number + dot will insert last command argument at $number place, alt + 0 + . will print last command name. For example $ ls /tmp /var $ ls /usr /home alt + 1 + . will result in '/usr' , if you press alt + . again, it will result in '/tmp' alt + 0 + . -> 'ls'

Downsample mp3s to 128K
This will lower the quality of mp3 files, but is necessary to play them on some mobile devices.

Find the package that installed a command

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