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Create an SSH connection (reverse tunnel) through your firewall.
Allows you to establish a tunnel (encapsulate packets) to your (Server B) remote server IP from your local host (Server A). On Server B you can then connect to port 2001 which will forward all packets (encapsulated) to port 22 on Server A. -- www.fir3net.com --

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"

bash script to zip a folder while ignoring git files and copying it to dropbox
Better tool for exporting git's repository is Git itself!

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"

Convert ascii string to hex
Here's a version that uses perl. If you'd like a trailing newline: $ perl -pe 's/(.)/sprintf("\\x%x", ord($1))/eg; END {print "\n"}'

Rename files in batch

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Protect directory from an overzealous rm -rf *
Forces the -i flag on the rm command when using a wildcard delete.

alias to close terminal with :q
Put this in your ~/.bashrc file (or the equivalent) If you use vim a lot, this alias will be immediately obvious. Your brain will thank you.

Get the full path to a file
Useful in scripts when the file is passed in as an argument. Eg. $ filepath=$(realpath $1)


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