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Take screenshot through SSH
Of course it requires import command, from imagemagick tools, but it's simpler to type, and imagemagick is usefull anyway.

Limit bandwidth usage by any program
Trickle is a voluntary, cooperative bandwidth shaper. it works entirely in userland and is very easy to use. The most simple application is to limit the bandwidth usage of programs.

Get your outgoing IP address

Count the number of characters in each line

Rips CDs (Playstation, etc.) and names the files the same as the volume name

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

list files recursively by size

How many Linux and Windows devices are on your network?
Shows how many Windows and Linux devices are on your network. May add support for others, but that's all that are on my network right now.

Quick and dirty hardware summary
Quick and dirty hardware summary where lshw is not available. Requires util-linux, procps, pciutils, usbutils and net-tools, which should be preinstalled on most systems.

Get current Xorg resolution via xrandr


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