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Pulse Volume Control Using Zenity
This produces a little bar that you can use to set the volume percentage.

Find out when your billion-second anniversary is (was).
Replace 12/31/1970 with your birth date.

make, or run a script, everytime a file in a directory is modified

Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usage
ps returns all running processes which are then sorted by the 4th field in numerical order and the top 10 are sent to STDOUT.

Count all the files in the directory and child directories

Get your internal IP address and nothing but your internal IP address
Will return your internal IP address.

prettier "cal" command
Displays the same output as "cal", but with the current day highlighted (probably dependent on gnu grep, as I'm not sure other grep's support the "--color=auto" option). Tested and working on Ubuntu 11 and OSX Lion.

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"

Bash: escape '-' character in filename

Fetch every font from dafont.com to current folder
Requires aria2c but could just as easily wget or anything else. A great way to build up a nice font collection for Gimp without having to waste a lot of time. :-)


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