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Connect to FreeWifi hotspot (France) and keep the connection active
(In French) Connection aux hotspots FreeWifi, et maintien de la connection active

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

reverse order of file

Print IP of any interface. Useful for scripts.

Disable sending of start/stop characters
This command disable sending of start/stop characters. It's useful when you want to use incremental reverse history search forward shortcut (Ctrl+s). To enable again, type: $ stty -ixoff

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"

Paste hardware list (hwls) in html format into pastehtml.com directly from console and return URI.
In this Linux box i need to become root to get the complete hardware list, so either become root before or call it with sudo as i did, your choice.

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

wc in perl


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