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Remote execute command as sudoer via ssh
Example: remote install an application(wine). sshpass -p 'mypssword' ssh -t mysshloginname@192.168.1.22 "echo 'mypassword' | sudo -S apt-get install wine" Tested on Ubuntu.

Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase
Usage examples: say hello say "hello world" say hello+world

Print the 10 deepest directory paths

Remove a line in a text file. Useful to fix
In this case it's better do to use the dedicated tool

Write comments to your history.
A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.

View a sopcast stream
Get sopcast links for live sports from http://myp2p.eu (for example) Get sp-sc or sp-auth binary by googling (sopcast + linux) eg http://www.jbg.f2s.com/sp-sc.gz Requires the 32bit libstdc++5 package. After exiting mplayer, type 'killall sp-sc'

Kill a process by its partial name
pkill is a standard command and kills processes Byte part of their name.

List your MACs address
No need for the ls -r and a sort is also not really needed.

Execute a command on multiple hosts in parallel
Ssh to host1, host2, and host3, executing on each host and saving the output in {host}.log. I don't have the 'parallel' command installed, otherwise it sounds interesting and less cryptic.

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously


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