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diff --git a/software/debian b/software/debian
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 Debian Linux
 ===========================
 
+**See also `freebsd </k/software/freebsd-tricks>`__ and 
+`unix </k/software/unix-tricks>`__ tricks.**
+
 Some gotchas from installing debian a few times:
 
+ * To enable sshd in ubuntu install ``openssh-server``
+
  * Massive ``ssh`` headache issues from around 2007-2008; make sure to check on
    these.
 
diff --git a/software/freebsd-tricks b/software/freebsd-tricks
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--- a/software/freebsd-tricks
+++ b/software/freebsd-tricks
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 FreeBSD Tricks
 =====================================
 
+**See also `unix </k/software/unix-tricks>`__ and 
+`debian </k/software/debian>`__ tricks.**
+
 Set User Shell
 -----------------------
 ``bash`` isn't always installed, so the default user shell is ``sh``; after
diff --git a/software/unix-tricks b/software/unix-tricks
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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+=====================================
+UNIX Tricks
+=====================================
+**See also `freebsd </k/software/freebsd-tricks>`__ and 
+`debian </k/software/debian>`__ tricks.**
+
+Fork many processes with `xargs`
+-----------------------------------
+To fork off 10 instances of sleep with incremented lengths, 5 at a time::
+
+$ seq 10 20 | xargs -n 1 -P 5 sleep
+