Re: [twitter:@riywo]'s UNIX Command Idioms ps auxwwwwwww number of "w" depends on my mood in that day :D ps auxwwwwwwwww -L netstat -tna / -una / -tnl / -tnap tar xvf tar zxvf / jxvf / Jxvf are boring trailing slash in rsync rsync -av file [file] HOST:dir/ rsync -av dir/ HOST:dir/ tcpdump -i any -nlx strace -s 100 -fFTttt diff -u /path/to/file <(ssh host cat /path/to/file) see also: http://d.haten