Finding out which ports are in use

2021-07-09 #cli #unix-things-i-always-forget

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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Rsync

2020-07-15 #cli #unix-things-i-always-forget

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

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Zipping

2020-06-02 #cli #unix-things-i-always-forget

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

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Listing directories

2020-03-18 #cli #unix-things-i-always-forget

A listing of my favorite ls features.

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Unix things I always forget

2020-03-18 #cli #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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