Shell

Concatenate & Compress (to from)

tar -cvzf filepath/filename.tar.gz filename

Extract multiple files (from to)

tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz

Copy files across systems(from to)

scp user@from-server:path/file user@to-server:path/file

Sort with count by column x

cut -d " " -f 2 raw.file | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr > ordered_by_freq_file

References

www.watsys.unh.edu/Darlene/TechToolsFiles/LammersUNIXDemo/UNIX_Intro.html