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Get the IP address of a machine. Just the IP, no junk.
Why use many different utilities all piped together, when you only need two?

Enable programmable bash completion in debian lenny
The really awesome bash completion in debian seems to be an extra package now, which has to be installed. After sourcing /etc/bash_completion it completes almost everything (package names in apt... etc) :-) To make this permanent, put something like this in your .bashrc: if [ -f /etc/bash_completion]; then source /etc/bash_completion fi

Display unique values of a column
the column number is '6'

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Coping files, excluding certain files
Preserve file structure when coping and exclude some file o dir patterns

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"

backup your playstation game using rip

Show a Command's Short Description
The whatis command displays a short description for the command you list on the command line. It is useful to quickly learn what a command does

Colorize matching string without skipping others
this is useful to highlight only some code without losing other lines (eg. software, logs, scripts)

Using parcellite, indents the content of the clipboard manager
This command takes the content of a Parcellite-managed clipboard manager and add one level of indentation to it. It may be useful to indent a block of code which will enter inside another, already indented one but I use it mostly to indent code I will post in Stack Overflow questions and answers.


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