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Speed up launch of firefox
Compress information DBs of firefox to speed up the launch of browser.

To Stop or Start (Restart) a Windows service from a Linux machine

Insert a line for each n lines
specially usefull for sql scripts with insert / update statements, to add a commit command after n statements executed.

Filter IP's in apache access logs based on use
The first sort is necessary for ips in a list to be actually unique.

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

Calculate pi to an arbitrary number of decimal places

Monitor iptables in realtime

Do one ping to a URL, I use this in a MRTG gauge graph to monitor connectivity

print text in colors green, cyan, blue or red (see sample output for usage)

Move all but the newest 100 emails to a gzipped archive


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