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Umount only the NFS related to 'string'
Sometimes, you have a lot of NFS in the server and you can't or shouldn't use umount -a. Whis this command, you only umount the fs related to the 'string'

turn off auto hard disc boot scanning for ext3

IBM AIX: Extract a .tar.gz archive in one shot
This command is for UNIX OSes that have plain vanilla System V UNIX commands instead of their more functional GNU counterparts, such as IBM AIX.

Query Wikipedia via console over DNS
Shorter version, works with multiple words.

Test a serial connection
If the connection works you should see a "hello" on host A. If not: check your cabeling etc :-)

Find Out My Linux Distribution Name and Version

Set laptop display brightness
Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

Mysql uptime
show Mysql uptime

List all symbolic links in current directory
why go through the hard way? use find with -type l

Define a quick calculator function
POSIX compliant arithmetic evaluation. = 10*2+3


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