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Get your outgoing IP address

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"

Monitor a file with tail with timestamps added

generate a telephone keypad
seems a useless command ...

USE WITH CAUTION: perminately delete old kernel packages

Random Futurama quote
Random Futurama quote from http://cubemonkey.net/quotes/. Change the quote= to change the quote source.

this toggles mute on the Master channel of an alsa soundcard

find builtin in bash v4+
This command will give you the same list of files as "find /etc/ -name '*killall' | xargs ls -l". In a simpler format just do 'ls /etc/**/file'. It uses shell globbing, so it will also work with other commands, like "cp /etc/**/sshd sshd_backup".

Get a file from SharePoint with cURL
If you know the URL of a file on a SharePoint server, it's just a matter of logging in with your AD credentials to get the file with cURL

Network Discover in a one liner


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