one-liners

This aims at listing day-to-day useful one-liners.

HTTP

Run an HTTP server in the current directory:

# Python 2
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

# Python 3
python -m http.server

Going further:

• Improved scripted version (better case and encoding support)
• Big list of HTTP static server one-liners

SMTP

Run a SMTP server that dumps messages to the standard output:

python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025