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pipe output of a command to your clipboard
In turn you can get the contents of your clipboard by typing xsel by itself with no arguments: $ xsel This command requires you to install the xsel utility which is free

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

Delete an IPtable rules based on row number

Clear cassandra snapshots that are older than 30 days
Better than: $ nodetool clearsnapshot

Get ssh server fingerprints
Get your server's fingerprints to give to users to verify when they ssh in. Publickey locations may vary by distro. Fingerprints should be provided out-of-band.

print text in color red
eg: $printTextInColorRed foo bar foo bar [in red color]

To find the count of each open file on a system (that supports losf)

Display a list of RPMs installed on a particular date
Find out which RPMs were installed on a particular date. These would (naturally) include update RPMs. This example shows searching for "Thu 05 Mar" (with grep). Alternatively, pipe it to less so you can search inside less (with less's neat text highlighting of the search term): rpm -qa --queryformat '%{installtime} \"%{vendor}\" %{name}-%{version}-%{release} %{installtime:date}\n' | less # (this example) search term: Thu 05 Mar

Perform a C-style loop in Bash.
Print 0 through 99, each on a separate line.

Show UDID of iPhone
Display the serial of the iPhone (aka UDID).


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