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creating you're logging function for your script
You could also pipe to logger.

Remount an already-mounted filesystem without unmounting it
Necessary for fsck for example. The remount functionality follows the standard way how the mount command works with options from fstab. It means the mount command doesn't read fstab (or mtab) only when a device and dir are fully specified. After this call all old mount options are replaced and arbitrary stuff from fstab is ignored, except the loop= option which is internally generated and maintained by the mount command. It does not change device or mount point.

Google text-to-speech in mp3 format
same but redirecting to player and putting whaever text line.. works on my ubuntu machine ...

convert uppercase files to lowercase files

Rename files in batch

Get your public ip

du disk top 10
fancy command line ncdu clone

Find the package that installed a command

find both total size and number of files below any given svn directory
afaik, svn doesn't have a good, scriptable way of telling you these two basic pieces of information.

Solaris get PID socket
Command line to get which PID is opening a socket on IP and PORT. Only useful under Solaris.


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