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alias speedtest='wget --output-document=/dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip'

Check syntax of all Perl modules or scripts underneath the current directory
Finds all *.p[ml]-files and runs a perl -c on them, checking whether Perl thinks they are syntactically correct

Count all the files in the directory and child directories

encrypt and post or get and decrypt from sprunge using gpg symmetric encryption option
create simple encrypted notes to yourself using a passphrase on sprunge.us

Command to rename multiple file in one go

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Rsync two directories with filtered extensions

Enable cd by variable names
Usage: $ mydir=/very/long/path/to/a/dir $ cd mydir I often need to cd where no man wants to go (i.e. long path). by enabling the shell option cdable_vars, I can tell cd to assume the destination is the name of a variable.

Center text in console with simple pipe like
Center the output text in max line length of buffered output pipe;

PulseAudio: set the volume via command line
If you have more than one SINK


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