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Simple addicting bash game.
hold period (or whatever character) and hit enter after a second. You need to make the next line of periods the same length as the previous line... score starts at 0 and increase each time length of line is same.

Sort output by column
(separator = $IFS)

Find the package that installed a command

Should I be sleeping?

Write comments to your history.
A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.

cp the file
Copy the file with the given .extension at the source file's location. Eliminates the typing of long paths again and again.

View dmesg output in human readable format

Transforms a file to all uppercase.
Transforms a file to all uppercase.

Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

python smtp server
This command will start a simple SMTP server listening on port 1025 of localhost. This server simply prints to standard output all email headers and the email body.


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