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Map the slot of an I/O card to its PCI bus address
Recent hardware may or may not enumerate *both of* these values

list files recursively by size

Convert .flv to .avi

Perform Real-time Process Monitoring Using Watch Utility

Remove a line from a file using sed (useful for updating known SSH server keys when they change)
For example, to remove line 5 from foo, type: vi +5d +wq foo

Get a list of all browsable Samba shares on the target server.

from the console, start a second X server
This starts a very basic X session, with just a simple xterm. You can use this xterm to launch your preferred distant session. $ ssh -X john@otherbox gnome-session Try also startkde or fluxbox or xfce4-session. To switch between your two X servers, use CTRL+ALT+F7 and CTRL+ALT+F8.

git remove files which have been deleted
This command handles git rm'ing files that you've deleted.

This is N5 sorta like rot13 but with numbers only
This is N5 sorta like rot13 but with numbers only. Encrypt echo "$1" | xxd -p | tr '0-9' '5-90-6' Decrypt echo "$1" | tr '0-9' '5-90-6' | xxd -r -p

Check all bash scripts in current dir for syntax errors
Check all bash scripts in current dir for syntax errors WITHOUT running them.


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