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Console clock
Shows a simple clock in the console -t param removes the watch header Ctrl-c to exit

How to remove an ISO image from media database

Prefix every line with a timestamp
Useful to add a timestamp to every line printed to stdout. You can use `-Ins` instead of `-Iseconds` if you want more precision.

Join lines and separate with spaces
Read vmargs.txt, which is a text file that could either be DOS-style (\r\n) or UNIX-style (\n) line endings and join the lines with a space separator. Can this be shortened/made more elegant?

Display 16 largest installed RPMs in size order, largest first
Interesting to see which packages are larger than the kernel package. Useful to understand which RPMs might be candidates to remove if drive space is restricted.

nagios wrapper for any script/cron etc
use w/ check_freshness. passes the last line of output and exit code to nagios via nsca

Start a game on the discrete GPU (hybrid graphics)
On laptops featuring hybrid graphics and using the free X drivers, the DRI_PRIME variable indicates which GPU to run on. This alias allows to utilize the faster discrete GPU without installing proprietary drivers.

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Recursive replace of directory and file names in the current directory.
This should work anywhere perl and grep is available. :P

Prints line numbers
If you don't have nl on your system, this achieves a similar effect, the default behavior in nl is to not number blank lines, but this does.


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