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Finding out which ports are in use

Sometimes you want to spin up a process, but the port it wants to bind to is already in use. Or a port isn’t listening to a process as you expected. lsof is a debugging life saver in these situations.

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jq

I rediscovered jq the other day, a little command line tool to format, read, and transform JSON from the command line.

Jq falls into one of my favorite categories of tools: the “simple and do one thing good” category—the Unix philosophy at its finest.

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Rsync

Rsync is a command line tool to copy files between different hosts.

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Zipping

Zipping is easy. Remembering zip’s arguments is hard.

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Listing directories

A listing of my favorite ls features.

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Unix things I always forget

A short intro on my second series: Unix things I always forget!

An attempt to document the Unix commands I know and care about. Consider this series a living document that will grow organically; I won’t be updating or adding new posts on a set schedule.

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