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If you find your thrill delving into the networking side of Unix, you'll find that there are lots of commands to give you all the insights you might want.

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While these 10 commands are generic and applicable on all systems with a Unix-like terminal, Mac OS X offers a few Mac-specific tools. Here are useful command line tricks for Mac users.

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