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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 11, 2023
> You can think of an alias as a shortcut for a command you execute!
> The computer world has a tendency of reinventing the while once in a while. I am not a fan of that process, but sometimes I just have to bite the bullet and adapt to change. This post explains how I adapted to one particular change: the netstat to sockstat transition.
> I used to do this to show which processes where listening on which port on a server:
> imz files were a popular way to distribute floppy disk images in the 1990s and 2000s, owing to their smaller size. Like cbz comic files and the handsome pair of chinos I’m wearing now, they’re zipped.
> To convert to a raw disk image, use a tool like unzip(1) in the shell, or append a zip extension and use a graphical decompression tool. You can then rename the file to a regular img, and mount as normal.
> Related to my DOS organising project, I’ve been cataloguing and archiving all my disk and CD images in a spreadsheet. Part of this has been unzipping all these IMZ files to make them easier to use. They’re on a compressed OpenZFS pool anyway, so may as well.
> The Ctrl-x-e key sequence provides a quick and easy way to save commands you've recently used on the command line into files.
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