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Output an arbitrary number of open TCP or UDP ports in an arbitrary range

comm -23 <(seq "$FROM" "$TO") <(ss -tan | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d':' -f2 | grep "[0-9]\{1,5\}" | sort | uniq) | shuf | head -n "$HOWMANY"

February 9, 2018stefanobaghino

Print the lines of file2 that are missing in file1

comm -23 file2 file1

February 13, 2012Anon9ge6A4uD