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eth-tool summary of eth# devices
Give the Speed and Link status of eth# 0-3. This is sort of what mii-tool does, but eth-tool is better, yet lacks device discovery.

Compress files in a directory

reapair all mySQL/mariaDB databases
while dumping database if you see following error/warning than you have to repair broken tables/rows

list files recursively by size

I hate `echo X | Y`
apart from not being generalisable to all shells, `Y <<< X` seems nicer to me than `echo X | Y`, e.g. $ <<< lol cat; it reads easier, you type less, and it also looks cool

Add to Instapaper
Adds URL to Instapaper. Usage: instapaper-add user@example.com 12345 http://www.commandlinefu.com/

Change mysql prompt to be more verbose
You can put this into your shell sourced file like .bashrc or .zshrc to have a different mysql prompt. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/de/mysql-commands.html for more informations. Beware that currently with mysql 5.5 the seconds are buggy and won't be displayed if you put this into a .cnf file. With the enironment variable this will work.

Search google and show only urls
Get the first 10 google results form a querry, but showing only the urls from the results. Use + to search diferent terms, ex: commandlinefu+google .

Plays Music from SomaFM
This command asks for the station name and then connects to somafm, Great for those who have linux home entertainment boxes and ssh enabled on them, just for the CLI fiends out there ( I know I'm one of them ;) Also, don't forget to add this as alias(ie alias somafm="read -p 'Which Station? "; mplayer --reallyquite -vo none -ao sdl http://somafm.com/startstream=${REPLY}.pls")

Parse m3u playlist file for total time
Parse an m3u file with seconds for each item and output the length of the entire playlist


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