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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"

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

a function to find the fastest DNS server
http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list.

Extract android adb ab backup to tar format (only works for non encrypted backups)

tcmdump check ping
capture only ping echo requests with tcpdump

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"

open a screenshot of a remote desktop via ssh
standard image viewers do not seem to be able to open a FIFO file. xloadimage was the first one i've stumbled upon that can handle this.

Convert Youtube videos to MP3
Make your own MP3s from Youtube videos.

Function to change prompt
Bash function to change your default prompt to something simpler and restore it to normal afterwards.

List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
Sorted in human readable format.


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