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What is my public IP-address?
Very effective, use only DNS protocol. The @ part is optional if you already set opendns servers as default ns servers.

List all installed kernels on Ubuntu except current one
Lists all installed kernels minus the current one. This is useful to uninstall older kernels that take too much space on /boot partition.

Mouse Tracking
Will track your mouse and save it to a file. You can use gnuplot to graph it: $ gnuplot -persist

Delete all git branches except master
Delete all your branches except master (useful after archiving branches)

Use tee to process a pipe with two or more processes
Tee can be used to split a pipe into multiple streams for one or more process to work it. You can add more " >()" for even more fun.

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Get MD5 checksum from a pipe stream and do not alter it

Go up multiple levels of directories quickly and easily.

SVN Clean
Removes all unversioned files and folders from an svn repository. Also: $ svn status --no-ignore | grep ^I | awk '{print $2}' | xargs rm -rf will remove those files which svn status ignores. Handy to add to a script which is in your path so you can run it from any repository (a la 'svn_clean.sh').

See a full list of compiler defined symbols
From http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/01/msg00971.html .


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