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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"

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Dump a web page
Useful to browse dangerous web sites.

Simple colourized JSON formatting for BASH
Leave out pygmentize or `pip install pygments` first.

find .txt files inside a directory and replace every occurrance of a word inside them via sed

Update Ogg Vorbis file comments
The "vorbiscomment" utility lets you update information such as artist names and song and album tags in an Ogg Vorbis file. You can use this command to fix any mistakes that were made when ripping an album.

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"

Convert a Python interactive session to a python script
Used to copy and paste a terminal buffer of a python interactive session into an editor

Find the location of the currently loaded php.ini file

Monitor logs in Linux using Tail
Works in Ubuntu, I hope it will work on all Linux machines. For Unixes, tail should be capable of handling more than one file with '-f' option. This command line simply take log files which are text files, and not ending with a number, and it will continuously monitor those files. Putting one alias in .profile will be more useful.


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