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Change prompt to MS-DOS one (joke)

Find the package that installed a command

Connect to TCP port 5000, transfer data and close connexion.
With no '-q 0' switch, nc simply waits, and whatever awaits the data hangs.

Selecting a random file/folder of a folder
Also looks in subfolders

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Extract your list of blocked images hosts from Firefox database
I use this to replicate my blocked images hosts list between work and home to keep my browsing ad-free.

Download all manuals RedHat 7 (CentOS/Fedora) with one command in Linux

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"

Convert all files for iPhone with HandbrakeCLI

Show numerical values for each of the 256 colors in ZSH
This will show a numerical value for each of the 256 colors in ZSH. Everything in the command is a ZSH builtin, so it should run on any platform where ZSH is installed. Prints one color per line. If someone is interested in formatting the output, paste the alternative.


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