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Lists all usernames in alphabetical order
Save some CPU, and some PIDs. :)

recursive reset file/dir perms
Good for fixing web permissions. You might also want to do something like this and skip files or directories that begin with a period: $ find public_html/stuff -not -name ".*" \( -type d -exec chmod 755 {} + -o -type f -exec chmod 644 {} + \) ...or include a special case for scripts: $ find public_html/stuff -type d -exec chmod 755 {} + -or -type f -name "*.pl" -exec chmod 755 {} + -or -exec chmod 644 {} +

Stream (almost) any music track in mplayer
Just give it an artist and/or song at the end of the command as shown.

Download all MegaTokyo strips
A simple script for download all the MegaTokyo strips from the first to the last one

open a screenshot of a remote desktop via ssh
standard image viewers do not seem to be able to open a FIFO file. xloadimage was the first one i've stumbled upon that can handle this.

OSX command to take badly formatted xml from the clipboard, cleans it up and puts it back into the clipboard.
This command can be used with xclip or xsel for use on a linux box.

generate random mac address

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

list services running (as root)
A quick way to list services running

Configuring proxy client on terminal without leaving password on screen or in bash_history
Prompts the user for username and password, that are then exported to http_proxy for use by wget, yum etc Default user, webproxy and port are used. Using this script prevent the cleartext user and pass being in your bash_history and on-screen


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