nc – tcp/ip swiss army knife

ABOUT nc Netcat (often abbreviated to nc) is a computer networking utility for reading from and writing to network connections using TCP or UDP. Netcat is designed to be a dependable back-end that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging …

free – Display amount of free and used memory in the system

A UNIX Command $free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 507008 432908 74100 0 14700 186816 -/+ buffers/cache: 231392 275616 Swap: 1485972 0 1485972 $free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 495 422 72 0 14 182 -/+ buffers/cache: 225 269 Swap: 1451 0 1451 $ UNIX Explanation Display amount of free …

tee – read from standard input and write to standard output and files

A UNIX Command $tee name my name is nice. my name is nice. $cat name my name is nice. $ UNIX Explanation Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output. A special variant of the tee for the shell is called script and permits duplicating all input commands submitted to a shell …

stat – display file or file system status

A UNIX Command stat -f / $stat -f / File: “/” ID: bc427fdafb7b0541 Namelen: 255 Type: ext2/ext3 Block size: 4096 Fundamental block size: 4096 Blocks: Total: 18864769 Free: 16209639 Available: 15251363 Inodes: Total: 4792320 Free: 4684854 $ UNIX Explanation Display file or file system status. Related Source Code Exposition static bool do_statfs (char const *filename, …