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Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Email an svn dump
Dumps a compressed svn backup to a file, and emails the files along with any messages as the body of the email

Lists all listening ports together with the PID of the associated process
This command is more portable than it's cousin netstat. It works well on all the BSDs, GNU/Linux, AIX and Mac OS X. You won't find lsof by default on Solaris or HPUX by default, but packages exist around the web for installation, if needed, and the command works as shown. This is the most portable command I can find that lists listening ports and their associated pid.

concatenate compressed and uncompressed logs
I use zgrep because it also parses non gzip files. With ls -tr, we parse logs in time order. Greping the empty string just concatenates all logs, but you can also grep an IP, an URL...

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Remove specific entries from iptables
Then you can remove the specific entry: iptables -D INPUT 10 Just make sure these are set: IPTABLES_SAVE_ON_STOP="yes" IPTABLES_SAVE_ON_RESTART="yes" Else your changes won't stick when you restart iptables.

Massive change of file extension (bash)
Change the file extension in batch. Useful to create output file names with same input name but distinct extension by including logic inside the loop

list all opened ports on host
in loop, until the last port (65535), list all opened ports on host. in the sample I used localhost, but you can replace with any host to test.

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"

Substitute an already running command
eg: Already running cmd $sleep 120 Substitution cmd $c=$(pgrep sleep) && sleep 5 && kill $c


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