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Look for English words in /dev/urandom
Little faster alternative.

Watch Al Jazeera Livestream directly in mplayer #jan25
One cannot call the high quality livestream directly, but command this gives you a session ID and the high quality stream. #egypt #jan25

Recursively move folders/files and preserve their permissions and ownership perfectly

Print all open regular files sorted by the number of file handles open to each.
This command run fine on my Ubuntu machine, but on Red Hat I had to change the awk command to `awk '{print $10}'`.

Reboot as a different OS in Grub
This will reboot as the Grub 2 option.

extract email adresses from some file (or any other pattern)
Simply more email-adresses matched

clear the X clipboard
Clears your clipboard if xsel is installed on your machine. If your xsel is dumb, you can also use $xsel --clear --clipboard

Find the package that installed a command

Rename files in batch

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


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