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Listen on an arbitrary port

Simple way to test if a port is available to the public. Run this command on the "server" and run a `telnet host-ip port-number` on the client. Test by sending strings to the server, which will be displayed in the server terminal.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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nc -l <port-number>

cybertoast · 2013-03-20 15:25:57 7
rsync a hierarchy but matching only one filename

Applying filter rules is what makes this a really useful command. It's usually a pain to figure out how to sync ONLY files matching a particular pattern, and often one reverts to goofy stuff like find .. -exec rsync .. The filter hides all folders from the transfer, so that only the matching folders that store the filename are left for the sync.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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rsync -avz --dry-run --include="only-include-this-filename" -f 'hide,! */' source/folder/ target/folder/

cybertoast · 2011-03-16 16:10:42 4

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Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

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dump database from postgresql to a file

Quick and dirty RSS

runs an rss feed through sed replacing the closing tags with newlines and the opening tags with white space making it readable.

List of macros defined by gcc

Lists all macros and their values defined by gcc.

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

svn diff colorized

If colordiff utility installed, it is sometimes handy to call this command. Of course, you should create an alias for it. E.g. svndiff.

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