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Change pidgin status
Changes pidgin status using its dbus interface. The status code can be obtained using command #4543.

Execute most recent command containing search string.
Execute the most recent command containing search string. This differs from !string as that only refers to the most recent command starting with search string.

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Erase to factory a pendrive, disk or memory card, and watch the progress

network usage per process
Nethogs groups bandwidth by process.

autorun program when logon Windows XP

remove leading blank lines

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


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