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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"

most used unix commands

Url Encode

Get Unique Hostnames from Apache Config Files
Get a list of all the unique hostnames from the apache configuration files. Handy to see what sites are running on a server. A slightly shorter version.

Open up a man page as PDF (#OSX)
Simply pass an argument to the script to convert the manual page to a PDF: $man2pdf drutil

Screen enable/disable loggin in all windows
The command when added in screenrc enables logging all open windows by using the C-l (control-l key combination) and disable by C-o . The lines need to be added in separate lines .

netstat with group by (ip adress)
Same as the rest, but handle IPv6 short IPs. Also, sort in the order that you're probably looking for.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Find if $b is in $a in bash
Find if $b is in $a in bash

List all Samba user name


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