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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"

increase recursively the modification time for a list of files
Increase the modification date for the files selected with the find command.

Reads a CD/DVD and creates an dvdisaster iso image with the advanced RS02 method.

Get file access control list

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

count match string lines from file(s)

look for a function reference in a library set

Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts
Simple and easy. No regex, no search and replace. Just clean, built-in tools.

Create a continuous digital clock in Linux terminal
Same effect, only shell commands.

recursive search and replace old with new string, inside files
Search and replace recursively. :-) Shorter and simpler than the others. And allows more terms: replace old new [old new ...] -- `find -type f`


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