xwinwrap allows you to run any program in the root desktop pane. I like to run atlantis, it goes well against Fedora 10's blue sun background. At one time this also served a useful purpose for me as a workaround for a problem that would happen when the video card went into sleep mode.

Iozone with a file of 2GB, 64KB record size, write/rewrite and read/re-read test, using just one thread.

Just added view with the eog viewer.

This command are using by me for checking connection with Internet.

List all the machine ip's currently running on your network

apg generates several random passwords. It uses several password generation algorithms (currently two) and a built-in pseudo random number generator.

If /home/sonic/archive/ was a symlink to /backup/sonic/archive it would follow the links and give you the file listing. By default find will NOT follow symbolic links. The default behavior for the find command is to treat the symlinks as literal files.

I discovered this when trying to write a script run via cron to delete files with a modification time older than X days. The easiest solution was to use:

/usr/bin/find -L /home/sonic/archive -name '*gz' -type f -mtime +14 -exec rm '{}' \;

-r to use extended regex

^ begin line

| alternative

get 100 or 0-9 one or two times

Uses the Wunderground web API to get weather data. Change the STA variable to a station near you.

tired of opening tabs and fill in search forms by hand? just pipe the search terms you need into this surfraw loop. you can use any browser you have installed, but a graphical browser with a tabbed interface will come in handy. surfraw can be found here:

http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org

This command should be copy-pasted in Windows, but very similar one will work on Linux.

It uses wget and sed.

You can use sshpass command to provide password for ssh based login. sshpass is a utility designed for running ssh using the mode referred to as "keyboard-interactive" password authentication, but in non-interactive mode.

For this example, all files in the current directory that end in '.xml.skippy' will have the '.skippy' removed from their names.

Prints out the version of exim

This command will tell you your fortune, with a nice Ascii Art animal, and it is colorized

You need cowsay, toilet and fortune installed.

On Ubuntu this is:

Debian:

Reads n lines from stdin and puts the contents in a variable. Yes, I know the read command and its options, but find this logical even for one line.

Try it this way...