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Mount windows share to the specified location including credentials
Replace IP address with yours IP.

list files recursively by size

Grep syslog today last hour
Uses date to grep de logfile for today and uses it to get the last hour logs. Can be used to get last minute logs or today's logs.

Terminal - Show directories in the PATH, one per line with sed and bash3.X `here string'
another method : awk '{gsub(/:/, "\n");print}'

Get your default route
This gets you your default route programatically, useful for scripts

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Display the standard deviation of a column of numbers with awk
This will calculate a running standard deviation in one pass and should never have the possibility for overflow that can happen with other implementations. I suppose there is a potential for underflow in the corner case where the deltas are small or the values themselves are small.

ping a host until it responds, then play a sound, then exit
After this, just type: $ beepwhenup You need to install "beep" before this would make the beep sound. Save it in your .profile if you want to use it later WARNING: this command won't exit until it is successful. You won't be able to CONTROL+C out of it.

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

download 10 random wallpapers from google
you may want &hl=en for &hl=es for the language you may want imgsz=xxlarge for imgsz=large or whatever filter you may want q=apples or whatever


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