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Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase
Usage examples: say hello say "hello world" say hello+world

search user defined function in c language

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

Recording the desktop and an application audio source for webcast
You will have to use the sound preferences (record) to choose the audio source and set it to internal.

find and replace tabs for spaces within files recursively

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"

Store dirs to later be changed to independant of the last directory you were in. Also with managment tools.
Check out: help dirs help pushd help popd -- Cheers!

Nmap list IPs in a network and saves in a txt

Copy file content to X clipboard
(only when vim has been compiled with +clipboard)

Rips CDs (Playstation, etc.) and names the files the same as the volume name


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