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Show IP Address in prompt --> PS1 var
when working with many machines in a computer lab need to know the IP addr is very large, this is a simplistic solution to make things easier

Report the established connections for a particular port

Symlink all files from a base directory to a target directory

Count the number of pages of all PDFs in current directory and all subdirs, recursively

display a smiling smiley if the command succeeded and a sad smiley if the command failed
you could save the code between if and fi to a shell script named smiley.sh with the first argument as and then do a smiley.sh to see if the command succeeded. a bit needless but who cares ;)

find largest file in /var
find largest file in /var

SAR - List the average memory usage for all days recorded under '/var/log/sa/*' using sar -r.

Make a DVD ISO Image from a VIDEO_TS folder on MacOSX
/path/ is the root folder of the DVD, not the VIDEO_TS folder.

Remove all unused kernels with apt-get
TIMTOWTDI

Copy a directory recursively without data/files


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