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retrieve the source address used to contact a given host
on multihomed hosts, connected to several networks, could be usefull to know the source address (local ip address) used to reach the target host, this command does not require root priviledges. The command use a TCP socket, if there is any error the command return an empty string, elsewhere return a valid ip address.

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"

Print the IP address and the Mac address in the same line
Print the IP address and the Mac address in the same line

Quickly generate an MD5 hash for a text string using OpenSSL
Here Strings / A variant of here documents, the format is:

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"

Display the size of all your home's directories
Display the size (human reading) of all the directories in your home path (~).

Testing php configuration

Create a new file

Link a deep tree of files all into on directory
If you want to pull all of the files from a tree that has mixed files and directories containing files, this will link them all into a single directory. Beware of filesystem files-per-directory limits.

Recursively chmod all dirs to 755 and all files to 644


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