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send tweets to twitter (and get user details)
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pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee
just make some data scrolling off the terminal. wow.

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.

Hide the name of a process listed in the `ps` output
$ exec -a $NAME $COMMAND $ARGS `your_cmd -erase_all_files` is the real process, but harmless-looking getty appears in the process table. Never actually had a need to do this, but interesting nonetheless... Tested in bash, dash. $ -a $NAME "pass NAME as the zeroth argument to COMMAND", i.e. customise the name of the process (as commonly seen with `ps`)

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Put a console clock in top right corner
This puts a clock in the top right of the terminal. This version doesn't use tput, but uses escape codes

Verify if ntpd is working properly
Used to verify if Network Time Protocol daemon is working properly.

List subfolders from largest to smallest with sizes in human readable form

Find all dotfiles and dirs
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