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Scan for new SCSI devices
Issues a scan command on the given scsi host adapter (ex. a fibre channel adapter, in the example above on host0). Output can be watched in the messages log or in "dmesg"

output length of longest line
If your wc does not have the -L option, you can use awk.

google tts

List all users and groups

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

list file descriptors opened by a process
Useful for examining hostile processes (backdoors,proxies)

Extract title from HTML files
not the best, uses 4 pipes!

Show the date of easter
ncal -e shows the date of Easter this year. ncal -e YYYY shows the date of Easter in a given year. ncal -o works the same way, but for Orthodox dates.

Comment out a line in a file
This will comment out a line, specified by line number, in a given file.

Stream (almost) any music track in mplayer
Just give it an artist and/or song at the end of the command as shown.


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