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check open ports without netstat or lsof

Customer Friendly free
makes more sense to customers XD

A Console-based Audio Visualizer for ALSA
# Installing apt search cava sudo apt install cava # modify the default config to change the colors by their hex color code cava -p mkdir ~/.cava nano ~/.cava/config cava # run with changes!

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

copy ACL of one file to another using getfacl and setfacl
If you copy windows file in e.g. cygwin the ACL might miss on the copied file. With this command you can copy the ACL of an existing file to another. WARNING: Existing ACL will get lost.

sort list of email addresses by domain.tld
email random list can be created here: https://www.randomlists.com/email-addresses

get you public ip address
Relies on ifconfig.me functioning. It's about as easy as it gets, and memorable to old geeks too.

Do some learning...
I like it sorted... 2> /dev/null was also needless, since our pipes already select stdin, only.

Outgoing IP of server
Faster than the curl/wget-approaches.

check for write/read permissions
su www-apache/ftp user and then check readable: find ~/ -type d \( -wholename '/dev/*' -o -wholename '/sys/*' -o -wholename '/proc/*' \) -prune -o -exec test -r {} \; -exec echo {} readable \; 2>/dev/null check writable: find ~/ -type d \( -wholename '/dev/*' -o -wholename '/sys/*' -o -wholename '/proc/*' \) -prune -o -exec test -w {} \; -exec echo {} writable \; 2>/dev/null

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