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Watch RX/TX rate of an interface in kb/s
Just a simple way without the need of additional tools. Of course, replace eth0 with your IF.

Record and share your terminal
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Find the package that installed a command

Mute xterm
Disable the annoying beep in xterm

Go get those photos from a Picasa album

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Do some learning...
compgen -c finds everything in your path.

Pause and Resume Processes
Add that and "cont () { ps -ec | grep $@ | kill -SIGCONT `awk '{print $1}'`; }" (without the quotes) to you bash profile and then use it to pause and resume processes safely

Rename all images in current directory to filename based on year, month, day and time based on exif information

Get your external IP address without curl
Curl is not installed by default on many common distros anymore. wget always is :) $ wget -qO- ifconfig.me/ip


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