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Select rectangular screen area
Hold 'Ctrl' + 'Alt' key while selecting rectangular text area of the screen with left mouse button. Should work in any terminal screen (xterm, konsole, ...) under X, if not then try with 'Ctrl' + 'Shift' + 'Alt' or two-combination of these.

diff color words

Numerically sorted human readable disk usage
Provides numerically sorted human readable du output. I so wish there was just a du flag for this.

set your screensaver as your desktop background MAC OSX

Rename files in batch

Print just line 4 from a textfile
this method should be the fastest

Function to split a string into an array

Get information about memory modules
To take information about the characteristics of the installed memory modules.

Print line immediately before a matching regex.
Use this if you don't have access to GNU grep's -B option.

a function to find the fastest DNS server
http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list.


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