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check open ports without netstat or lsof

[vim] Clear a file in three characters (plus enter)
% selects every line in the file. 'd' deletes what's selected. It's a pretty simple combination.

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Find the package that installed a command

Empty Bind9 cache
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Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously


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