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Commands

Terminal recipes, PowerShell one-liners, and the shell snippets worth remembering.

Terminal window showing a netcat session over TCP
Commands4 min

Top 10 Netcat Commands for Advanced Networking

Ten practical netcat (nc) patterns for troubleshooting, testing, and automation — with parameters, examples, and the use cases that actually come up in the field.

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Terminal window running a verbose curl request against an HTTPS endpoint
Commands4 min

10 Must-Know and Powerful cURL Commands

Practical cURL debugging patterns for APIs, TLS, DNS, redirects, and payload inspection — commands, what they reveal, and when to reach for them.

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Azure AD Connect synchronising on-premises Active Directory with Microsoft Entra ID
Commands4 min

Azure AD Connect: Top 10 PowerShell Commands for Monitoring & Management

A practical admin's field guide to Azure AD Connect (now part of Microsoft Entra ID) — what it does, which PowerShell modules ship with it, and the ten commands you'll actually run day-to-day.

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Nmap scanning a local subnet from a Linux terminal
Commands5 min

Nmap Tutorial for Beginners: Usage and Top 10 Parameters

Nmap is the standard open-source network scanner for discovering hosts, ports, services, and basic weaknesses. A beginner-friendly tour of what it does, how to use it, and the ten options you'll reach for again and again.

nmapnetwork-scanningport-scanning
PowerShell console running Test-NetConnection against a remote host
Commands4 min

PowerShell Power-Pack: 10 Must-Use Commands for Lightning-Fast Network Troubleshooting

Ten PowerShell cmdlets every Windows admin should keep close for diagnosing network hiccups — ping, ports, routes, firewall, packet capture, and more.

powershellwindowsnetworking
Linux terminal showing ls -lah output in a monospaced font
Commands3 min

Top 10 Linux Commands for File and Folder Management

The ten Linux file and folder commands every sysadmin and power user should have in muscle memory — options, examples, and expected output.

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