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spawn shell listener service with nc

ignore the .svn directory in filename completion
When browsing java source code (for example) it's really annoying having to type the first letter of the package when there is only one package in the subdir. man bash for more info about FIGNORE

Runs previous command replacing foo by bar every time that foo appears
Very useful for rerunning a long command changing some arguments globally. As opposed to ^foo^bar, which only replaces the first occurrence of foo, this one changes every occurrence.

SAR - List the average memory usage for all days recorded under '/var/log/sa/*' using sar -r.

recursively remove BOM

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

Google Translate
allow multiword translations

List of services sorted by boot order in Redhat-based systems

Benchmark SQL Query
Benchmark a SQL query against MySQL Server. The example runs the query 10 times, and you get the average runtime in the output. To ensure that the query does not get cached, use `RESET QUERY CACHE;` on top in the query file.

Get all shellcode on binary file from objdump
Tired copy paste to get opcode from objdump huh ? Get more @ http://gunslingerc0de.wordpress.com


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