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Send youtube video to Kodi
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Calculate N!
Same as the seq/bc solution but without bc.

Find the package that installed a command

Find files with root setuids settings

Show me a histogram of the busiest minutes in a log file:
Busiest seconds: $ cat /var/log/secure.log | awk '{print substr($0,0,15)}' | uniq -c | sort -nr | awk '{printf("\n%s ",$0) ; for (i = 0; i

Ring the system bell after finishing a long script/compile
This will ring the system bell once if your script exits successfully and twice if it fails. So you can go look at something else and it will alert you when done. Don't forget to use 'xset b [vol [pitch [duration]]]' to get the bell to sound the way you want.

Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.
show only the name of the apps that are using internet

a simple bash one-liner to create php file and call php function

Create a new file

wget progress bar with customized data size for dots


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