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hibernate

Selecting a random file/folder of a folder
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Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Query wikipedia over DNS

Play online music videos in terminal
pvl 'link1' 'link2' 'link3' Play Youtube, Vimeo, etc links without visual elements. Great for music videos when you just want the audio. You can control mplayer with this! Hit Ctrl-C twice to exit (if you're playing multiple files)

Show your current network interface in use

Sort specific lines while editing within vi
Sort lines within vi editor. In this example sort lines 33-61 and lines 4-9 asciibetically.

Nicely display mem usage with ps
Nicely display mem usage with ps.

Find pages returning 404 errors in apache logs
Finds the top ten pages returning an http response code of 404 in an apache log.


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