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sniff network traffic on a given interface and displays the IP addresses of the machines communicating with the current host (one IP per line)

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"

Process command output line by line in a while loop
This snippet allows to process the output of any bash command line by line.

disable history for current shell session

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

convert several jpg into one pdf file
require ImageMagick and GhostScript paquet

Find the package that installed a command

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

add a gpg key to aptitute package manager in a ubuntu system
when we add a new package to a aptitude (the debian package manager) we need to add the gpg, otherwise it will show warning / error for missing key

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"


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