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Set up alarm with fade-in, for graceful awakening
There are a lot of commands, which invokes your player at specified time. But I prefer not to jump from by bed, when alarm start to play. Instead, this script increases volume of mpd over time, which much more pleasant when you just woke up :)

execute a shell with netcat without -e
Shorter version with proper stderr redirection .

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
#4345 also works under windows

Quickly CD Out Of Directories
`up 3` will climb the directory tree by three steps. `up asdf` will do nothing, and returns exit code 1 as an error should.

Find the package that installed a command

Get a regular updated list of zombies
Shows all those processes; useful when building some massively forking script that could lead to zombies when you don't have your waitpid()'s done just right.

List last opened tabs in firefox browser

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Open a manpage in the default (graphical) web browser
An easy alias for opening a manpage, nicely HTML formatted, in your set internet browser. If you get a "command exited with status 3" error you need to install groff.

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