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Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Display rows and columns of random numbers with awk
Displays six rows and five columns of random numbers between 0 and 1. If you need only one column, you can dispense with the "for" loop.

Find all SUID binaries

urldecode with AWK
Fast and simple awk urldecoder! Note: Parameter -n is specific to GNU awk

Kill any process with one command using program name
This will kill all. e.g. killall firefox

Fetch the current human population of Earth
Fetches the world population JSON data from the US census and parses it uses jshon

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Extract HTTP Passwords in POST Requests

Google text-to-speech in local language or language of choice
Google text-to-speech in your local language or in language of choice via country code switch (ISO 639-1).

Using ASCII Art output on MPlayer
Not so useful. Just a cool feature.


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