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List your interfaces and MAC addresses

List .log files open by a pid
Uses lsof to display the full path of ".log" files opened by a specified PID.

Lists the supported memory types and how much your board can support.

Show running services (using systemctl)

Reset terminal that has been buggered by binary input or similar

Find default gateway

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

One command line web server on port 80 using nc (netcat)
Very simple web server listening on port 80 will serve index.html file or whatever file you like pointing your browser at http://your-IP-address/index.html for example. If your web server is down for maintenance and you'd like to inform your visitors about it, quickly and easily, you just have to put into the index.html file the right HTML code and you are done! Of course you need to be root to run the command using port 80.

Getting the last argument from the previous command

Search gpg keys from commandline

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