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Displays the version of the Adobe Flash plugin installed
This is for Debian, simply change the path if your Flash plugin is installed elsewhere.

rgrep: recursive grep without .svn
Only excludes .svn from filenames.

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

commandline dictionary
Note: 1) Replace 'wonder' with any word you looking the meaning for in the above example 2) Need to install these packages: wordnet & wordnet-base (latter should be automatically installed because of dependency) 3) Combined size of packages is about 30MB on my old ubuntu system (I find it worth it)

Write comments to your history.
A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.

Measures download speed on eth0

list files recursively by size

Set an alarm to wake up [2]
Set an alarm to starts in specific time.

clone a hard drive to a remote directory via ssh tunnel, and compressing the image

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"


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