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Get an IP address out of fail2ban jail
Removes an iptables rule created by fail2ban. This example shows how to remove a rule for an IP from the fail2ban-SSH chain. Can be used for any service monitored by fail2ban. For more on fail2ban, see http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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"

exclude file(s) from rsync
rsyncs files to a server excluding listed files also a file can be used to exclude common exclude rules and/or to exclude a ton of files, like so: $rsync --exclude-from '~/.scripts/exclude.txt' where exclude.txt has one rule per line: *.mp3 *.svn*

Find class in jar

Print text string vertically, one character per line.
Define a function $ vert () { echo $1 | grep -o '.'; } Use it to print some column headers $ paste

Docker: Remove all exited docker container

Sort a one-per-line list of email address, weeding out duplicates

Show directories in the PATH, one per line
Shorter version.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Forward port 8888 to remote machine for SOCKS Proxy
Simply change your web browser's proxy settings to point to a SOCKS proxy at port 8888 and you're good to go.


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