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List your installed Firefox extensions

Output sound when your computer is downloading something
Outputs pseudo-random sounds to speakers (stereo mode because of -c 2) when there are any kind of network activity.

shortcut to scp a file to the same location on a remote machine
This will copy a file from your current directory to the same location on another machine. Handy for configuring ha, copying your resolv.conf, .bashrc, anything in /usr/local, etc.

Function to output an ASCII character given its decimal equivalent

Remove a range of lines from a file
Delete a range of line

a function to create a box of '=' characters around a given string.
First argument: string to put a box around. Second argument: character to use for box (default is '=') Same as command #4948, but shorter, and without the utility function.

find listening ports by pid
change 24073 to your pid

MP3 player
I tried a few curses based mp3 players for playing back choir practice songs for my wife. Unfortunately none of the ones I tried were capable of scrubbing a track. Firefox saves the day.

GZip all files in a directory separately

Blank/erase a DVD-RW


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