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A nice command for summarising repeated information

Docker: Remove all exited docker container

removes characters from cursor to the end of line

Mac OS-X-> copy and paste things to and from the clipboard from the shell
Copies whatever is piped to the pbcopy command to the clipboard. pbpaste ... well pastes whats on the clipboard.

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

Calculate N!

Switch 2 characters on a command line.
If you typed 'sl', put the cursor on the 'l' and hit ctrl-t to get 'ls'.

display a smiling smiley if the command succeeded and a sad smiley if the command failed
you could save the code between if and fi to a shell script named smiley.sh with the first argument as and then do a smiley.sh to see if the command succeeded. a bit needless but who cares ;)

remove oprhan package on debian based system

Calculating number of Connection to MySQL

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