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check open ports without netstat or lsof

Get line count for any file ending with extension recursively rooted at the current directory.

To get internet connection information .
To get the connection information of protocol tcp and extended infortmation.

Add a line from 1 file after every line of another (shuffle files together)
After every line in targetfile (empty lines included) insert in a line from addfile. "Save" results to savefile. Addfile should be longer than targetfile since this doesn't loop back to the top of addfile. /^/R addfile -- says for every line that matches "has a start of line" output a line from the file addfile. > savefile (optional) -- redirect output to savefile file.

send a circular

Perl One Liner to Generate a Random IP Address
A bash version.

Selecting a random file/folder of a folder
I used only shuf command.

Send a local file via email
Send it the easy way, with MIME and everything handled for you by an app that knows best.

list files recursively by size

get all bookmarks from all profiles from firefox
for i in $(ls /home/marco/.mozilla/firefox/*\.*/places.sqlite); do sqlite3 $i "SELECT strftime('%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S', dateAdded/1000000, 'unixepoch', 'localtime'),url FROM moz_places, moz_bookmarks WHERE moz_places.id = moz_bookmarks.fk ORDER BY dateAdded;"; done

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