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List the libraries used by an application
For example, you need to make a copy of all the libraries that a certain application uses, with this command you can list and copy them.

Parse compressed apache error log file and show top errors
credit shall fall to this for non-gzipped version: https://gist.github.com/marcanuy/a08d5f2d9c19ba621399

Get the IP address of a machine. Just the IP, no junk.

Show account security settings
Show account security settings

return external ip
Get your ip address, hostname, ASN and geolocation information. If you want just one field as a text response you can also get that,eg curl ipinfo.io/ip

Count number of hits per IP address in last 2000 lines of apache logs and print the IP and hits if hits > 20

Find files with size over 100MB and output with better lay-out

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

Terminal - Show directories in the PATH, one per line with sed and bash3.X `here string'
another method : awk '{gsub(/:/, "\n");print}'

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"


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