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sort list of email addresses by domain.tld
email random list can be created here: https://www.randomlists.com/email-addresses

Show the PATH, one directory per line (part 2)
Here is another way to show the path, one directory per line. The command `tr` translates the colon into the new line, taking input from the $PATH variable

Share a file quickly using a python web server
Raise your hand if you haven't used this at least once to share a directory quickly

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Turns red the stderr output
Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4455706

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Command line calculator
This function defines a command line calculator that handles everything pythons math module can handle, e.g. trigonometric functions, sqrt, log, erf, ... (see http://docs.python.org/library/math.html). It even knows about the constants pi and e.

Symlink all files from a base directory to a target directory
Simple and easy to remember, if it already exists then it just ignores it.

Calculate N!
Same as the seq/bc solution but without bc.

View a man page on a nice interface
A great way of viewing some man page while using gnome.


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