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List open sockets protocol/address/port/state/PID/program name

Redefine the cd command's behavior
Often, the very next command after the cd command is 'ls', so why not combine them?. Tested on a Red Hat derivative and Mac OS X Leopard Update: changed ${1:-$HOME} to "${@:-$HOME}" to accomodate directories with spaces in the names

Generate MD5 of string and output only the hash checksum in a readable format
Generates the md5 hash, without the trailing " -" and with the output "broken" into pairs of hexs.

Extract your list of blocked images hosts from Firefox database
I use this to replicate my blocked images hosts list between work and home to keep my browsing ad-free.

Split lossless audio (ape, flac, wav, wv) by cue file

list files recursively by size

Battery real life energy vs predicted remaining plotted
This time I added a print to reemaining energy, every minute, time stamped. The example shown here is complete and point to large discrepancies as time passes, converging to accuracy near the end.

Get all IPs via ifconfig
works on Linux and Solaris. I think it will work on nearly all *nix-es

list files recursively by size

Fetch every font from dafont.com to current folder
Requires aria2c but could just as easily wget or anything else. A great way to build up a nice font collection for Gimp without having to waste a lot of time. :-)


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