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If you need to print some portion of a huge file, let's say you want to print from line 200 to 300, you can use this command to print the line from LINE1 to LINE2 of file FILE.

Sends random beeps to your PC-speaker. Think... You can also run it remotely on another computer using SSH and scare its user! Don't forget to run it on your dedicated hosting server and watch sysadmin's action from data-center's live remote cameras!

Sends random sounds to your sound card output (e.g. your speaker). Think... You can also run it remotely on another computer using SSH and scare its user!

This will kill a specific process you don't know the PID of, when pidof and pgrep are not available, for example on OS X. var1 is created so that the whitespace can be trimmed before passing off to kill.

replace apt-get with your distro's package manager.

Where 'something' is the package name, and 'specific' is what you're specifically looking for.

This helps if your query is 2+ words long.

The socket.gethostname() call returns the host name of the computer. The socket.gethostbyname_ex() call returns a list of three items: The host name, the list of aliases for this host, and a list of IP addresses. Recall that Python?s array starts with index 0, the socket.gethostbyname_ex(?)[2] expression refers to the list of IP addresses. Finally, the print statement prints out the IP addresses, one per line.

Upload file to remote server using SCP

Gives you an updating woot! item tracker!

Useful for monitoring both MySQL and the server load at the same time.

Removed unneeded grep -v by making the initial grep unable to match itself.

This command is useful for archiving or extracting Documents and Settings folder, when working in Linux box with Windows partition (dual boot installation). You have to enter into appropriate directory, of course.

Shows all linked file and destinations. The 'ls -l' command lists the files in long (1 file per line) format, and the grep command displays only those lines that starts with an l (lower case L) -- a linked file.

Updated: Remove reference to hard links because this command does not apply to hard link as others kindly pointed out.

Some people put spaces in filenames. Others have an $EDITOR environment variable set. This defaults to vim, but you can use whatever you wish: emacs, nano, ed, butterflies, etc.