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Temporarily suspend and unsuspend a foreground job
Press ^Z, do what you need to do on the shell, then input % to resurrect the suspended job.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Show the last 20 sessions logged on the machine
change 20 by the number of sessions you want to know (20 it's fair enough)

generate random password
generate password

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"

View a man page on a nice interface
A great way of viewing some man page while using gnome.

Random IPv4 address

Show latest changed files

Get full directory path of a script regardless of where it is run from
Also resolves symlinks, showing the full path of the link target

mplayer -af scaletempo
Pitch-correct play speed with mplayer. You can also use [] and {} keys to change play speed on-the-fly.


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