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Programmatic way to find and set your timezone
1. it find your public ip via ifconfig.io 2. than use this IP to request your timezone via worldtimeapi.org 3. and send it to the command timedatectl set-timezone

List only directories, one per line
omit the 1 (one) if you don't need one-per-line

Copy a file using pv and watch its progress
pv allows a user to see the progress of data through a pipeline, by giving information such as time elapsed, percentage completed (with progress bar), current throughput rate, total data transferred, and ETA. (man pv)

a simple bash one-liner to create php file and call php function

Convert a SVG file to grayscale
It requires inkscape 0.46 and lxml packages

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"

Swap a file or dir with quick resotre
This lets you replace a file or directory and quickly revert if something goes wrong. For example, the current version of a website's files are in public_html. Put a new version of the site in public_html~ and execute the command. The names are swapped. If anything goes wrong, execute it again (up arrow or !!).

analyze traffic remotely over ssh w/ wireshark
commandline for mac os x

Tail a log-file over the network
This one is tried and tested for Ubuntu 12.04. Works great for tailing any file over http.


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