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

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

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.

rsync + find
rsync from source to dest all between >30

fetch all revisions of a specific file in an SVN repository
Manages everything through one sed script instead of pipes of greps and awks. Quoting of shell variables is generally easier within a sed script.

Converts uppercase chars in a string to lowercase
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Find the package that installed a command

Export MySQL tables that begin with a string

Pronounce an English word using Dictionary.com
This one uses dictionary.com

post data with a http request


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