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Show directories in the PATH, one per line
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Periodic Display of Fan Speed with Change Highlights
Uses the lm-sensors package in Linux to display fan speed. Grep RPM is used to discover lines containing the text RPM, and sed is used to edit out everything but the RPM number. The watch utility is used to update the display every 10 seconds and -d highlights any changes from the previous value. The eval function of Bash is used to execute the command enclosed in the ".." string.

Monitor all DNS queries made by Firefox

Copy modification timestamp from one file to another.

Avoiding history file to be overwritten
If histappend options is set in bash, the file .bash_history will not be overwrite and history list is append to it.

Best SSH options for X11 forwarding
grabbed from: http://blog.samat.org/2006/05/08/best-ssh-options-for-x11-forwarding

Convert string to uppercase

find the longest command in your history

Processor / memory bandwidthd? in GB/s
Read 32GB zero's and throw them away. How fast is your system?

Find the package that installed a command


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