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Stoppable sleep
A nice way to interrupt a sleep with a signal.

Split lossless audio (ape, flac, wav, wv) by cue file

Dump a configuration file without comments or whitespace...
A short, *easy-er* to remember command for stripping whitespace and comments from a config file, (or any file for that matter). Remember regex as: slash, space, star. pound, slash, bar. pointy-hat, dollar. (or "caret, dollar" if you must) :-P

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

for newbies, how to get one line info about all /bin programs
Get simple description on each file from /bin dir, in list form, usefull for newbies.

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

Delete Mailer-Daemon messages

nmap get all active online ips from specific network
scan whole specific network for active online ips

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"

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