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Query wikipedia over DNS

ping a range of IP addresses
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list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

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In Mac OS X, read the copy area (CMD + V) and convert text to audible speech

combining streams
2>&1 permit to combinate stdout and stderr. grep will catch stderr and stdout instead of stdout only.

Include a remote file (in vim)
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list files recursively by size

Show what a given user has open using lsof

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