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Change prompt to MS-DOS one (joke)
This one eliminates the additional backslash at the end (which is not necessary)

Dump bash command history of an active shell user.

rename anime fansubs
renames Anime Episodes to files, that can be parsed by sonarr & co

Let your computer lull you to sleep
Can change language and speed, see espeak man page for options. (Install espeak in your linux distro via yum or apt-get) For insomniacs you may need to enclose in a while true; do ...; done loop ;)

Add to Instapaper
Adds URL to Instapaper. Usage: instapaper-add user@example.com 12345 http://www.commandlinefu.com/

Watch how many tcp connections there are per state every two seconds.
slighty shorter

Remove Thumbs.db files from folders

benchmark web server with apache benchmarking tool
-n 9000 : Number of requests to perform for the benchmarking session -c 900 : Number of multiple requests to perform at a time

count of files from each subfolder
Find the number of files from each folder

Programmatic way to find and set your timezone
1. it find your public ip via ifconfig.io 2. than use this IP to request your timezone via worldtimeapi.org 3. and send it to the command timedatectl set-timezone

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