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Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Generate random password on Mac OS X
Feel free to put this in your ~/.profile: $ random(){ cat /dev/urandom | env LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc $1 | head -c $2; echo; } Then use it to generate passwords: $ random [:alnum:] 16 Or DNA sequences: $ random ACGT 256

Print a file to a LPD server
You don't need cups =)

Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)
Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale.

Tail a log-file over the network
Netcat is used to serve a log-file over a network on port 1234. Point a browser to the specified server/port combo to view log-file updates in real-time.

Display Dilbert strip of the day
Requires display. Corrected version thanks to sputnick and eightmillion user.

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Print a row of 50 hyphens
Get there by going backwards and forgetting the numbers.

Backup sda5 partition to ftp ( using pipes and gziped backup )

shorten url using curl, sed and is.gd
Just create a function in your .bashrc like this shorturl() { curl -s -d URL="$1" http://is.gd/create.php | sed '/Your new shortened/!d;s/.*value="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/' }


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