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Happy Days
This never gets old

Check syntax of remote ruby file

Router discovery

Print a row of characters across the terminal
shorter than alternative

Another way to see the network interfaces
Like many other thing in Linux ,you can see the same thing in different way.

save your current environment as a bunch of defaults

Take a screenshot every 2 seconds
Take a screenshot every 2 seconds and save it as a png file

convert markdown to PDF
This is the one-line version of this htmldoc + markdown combo to convert markdown formatted text to PDF files to distribute to your non-savvy project managers. http://scottnesbitt.net/ubuntublog/?p=114

Scan for new SCSI devices
Issues a scan command on the given scsi host adapter (ex. a fibre channel adapter, in the example above on host0). Output can be watched in the messages log or in "dmesg"

Find the package that installed a command


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