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Copy one file to multiple files
Copies file.org to file.copy1 ... file.copyn

Weather on the Command line
Get your weather from a weather station just blocks from your home. Go to http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/ and find a weather station near you. Click on a temperature bubble for that area. When the window pops up, click on hypertext link with the station ID, then on the bottom right of the page, click on the Current Conditions XML. Thats your link! Good luck!

video volume boost

Print a single route to a destination and its contents exactly as the kernel sees it
Useful to determine the source_ip of outgoing packages to a certain destination

draw rhomb

Shrink more than one blank lines to one in VIM.

List the popular module namespaces on CPAN
Grabs the complete module list from CPAN, pulls the first column, ditches html lines, counts, ditches small namespaces.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Convert a Nero Image File to ISO
This line removes the 300k header from a Nero image file converting it to ISO format

Find common lines between two files


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