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watch your network load on specific network interface
-n means refresh frequency you could change eth0 to any interface you want, like wlan0

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

create a progress bar...
A simple way yo do a progress bar like wget.

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Runs a command without hangups.
The improvement is that you can re-attach to the screen at a later point.

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Countdown Clock
The biggest advantage over atoponce's nifty original is not killing the scrollback. Written assuming bash, but shouldn't be terribly difficult to port to other shells. S should be multiple spaces, but I can't get commandlinefu to save/show them properly, any help?

Annotate tail -f with timestamps
Uses the command ts in order to add a timestamp on each line. This command is provided in the moreutils package on Debian, and you may need libtime-duration-perl to be able to format the date.

check open ports without netstat or lsof


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