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find an unused unprivileged TCP port
Some commands (such as netcat) have a port option but how can you know which ports are unused?

Synthesize text as speech
The Festival Speech Synthesis System converts text into sound. Or: links -dump http://youfavoritewebsite.com | festival --tts

Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.
This corrects duplicate output from the previous command.

Count lines using wc.

power off system in X hours form the current time, here X=2

Printout a list of field numbers (awk index) from a CSV file with headers as first line.
Useful to identify the field number in big CSV files with large number of fields. The index is the reference to use in processing with commands like 'cut' or 'awk' involved.

Tells the shell you are using

Convert multiple flac files to mp3
make sure that flac and lame are installed sudo apt-get install lame flac

Postpone a command [zsh]
When writing on the command line of zsh, by pressing Alt+q the command will be cleaned, and you can insert another one. The command you were writing will be recorder, and pasted on the prompt immediately after the "interrupting" command is inserted.

Rotate a single page PDF by 180 degrees
More pdftk examples: http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples/


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