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Print a row of 50 hyphens
Perl is installed by default on most modern OS when jot is not.

Make a playlistfile for mpg321 or other CLI player
Supports other file formats.

When was your OS installed?
Show time and date when you installed your OS.

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
#4345 also works under windows

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"

Calculate 1**2 + 2**2 + 3**2 + ...

Get OSX Battery percentage
adjusting the field "f1" will give you additional information such as f1 = 98% f2 = discharging f3 = 2:02 remaining

Unbelievable Shell Colors, Shading, Backgrounds, Effects for Non-X
I've been using linux for almost a decade and only recently discovered that most terminals like putty, xterm, xfree86, vt100, etc., support hundreds of shades of colors, backgrounds and text/terminal effects. This simply prints out a ton of them, the output is pretty amazing. If you use non-x terminals all the time like I do, it can really be helpful to know how to tweak colors and terminal capabilities. Like: $ echo $'\33[H\33[2J'

a function to find the fastest DNS server
http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list.

Copy an element from the previous command
You can specify a range via '-'.


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