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Get your outgoing IP address
should be very consistent cause it's google :-)

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.

Change Windows Domain password from Linux
If you use Linux in a Windows domain and there are N days to expiry, this is how you can change it without resorting to a windows machine.

Dump the root directory to an external hard drive
This will compress the root directory to an external hard drive and split it to parts once it reaches the 4 Gigs file system limit. You can simply restore it with: $ restore ivf /media/My\ Passport/Fedora10bckup/root_dump_fedora

Tells which group you DON'T belong to (opposite of command "groups") --- uses sed
special thanks to XwZ :)

Parallel file downloading with wget
xargs can be used in this manner to download multiple files at a time, and xargs will in this case run 10 processes at a time and initiate a new one when the number running falls below 10.

Print your cpu intel architecture family

Get the current svn branch/tag (Good for PS1/PROMPT_COMMAND cases)
uses just one sed

Export a subset of a database
Limits the number of rows per table to X

create a progress bar...
A simple way yo do a progress bar like wget.

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