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how to allow a program to listen through the firewall
To allow a program ("programmaautorizzato" in example) to listen through the firewall

Tail a log-file over the network
This one is tried and tested for Ubuntu 12.04. Works great for tailing any file over http.

Search for a string inside all files in the current directory

grep for minus (-) sign
Use flag "--" to stop switch parsing

Give webpage status code
this function will give you a status webpage code using curl.

Delete all non-printing characters from a file
tr has some predefined sets of characters that are more convenient to use than characters codes

Redirect STDIN
Several times, I find myself hitting my up arrow, and changing the search term. Unfortunately, I find myself wasting too much time typing: $ grep kernel /var/log/messages Redirecting STDIN allows me to put the search term at the end so I less cursor movement to change what I'm searching for: $ < /var/log/messages grep kernel If you're using the emacs keyboard binding, then after you press your up arrow, press CTRL+w to erase the word. If this has already been submitted, I couldn't find it with the search utility.

sort list of email addresses by domain.tld
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Unzip multiple files with one command
With this command you can easily unzip multiple zip files with just one command. All you need to do is to use single quotes.

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


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