simple function i found somewhere to open vim help page from the shell use :h like you would in vim

Go look at sample output first This is kind of like the ls command but displays by modify time with size, date and color. The newest files at the bottom of the screen (reverse using tac) Show Sample Output

easy extract files without remembering all the commands for different formats. atools does other things also like listing archives content, converting from one format to another ...etc. Supports whatever is install on your system such as tar, zip, rar, 7z, rpm, deb, cab , ace, jar ...etc

from 1.ogg 2.ogg 3.ogg 10.ogg 11.ogg to 01.ogg 02.ogg 03.ogg 10.ogg 11.ogg

use vim like less command pager but with color highlighting = pretty :p also u can use /usr/share/vim/vim73/macros/less.sh

convert to pdf and many other formats and vise versa to get a list of supported formats, run unoconv --show

use xdg-open without looking at error messages examples msg: (nautilus:3955): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: Notebook.css:21:15: Junk at end of value

extracting .ace files yay

paste file to pastebin (other similar sites available, read man page). make sure to have 'pastebinit' install

requires a gmail account, it opens Google tasks in a self contain window, to write your todo list and have it sync online yay =)

usage: tpb searchterm example: tpb the matrix trilogy This searches for torrents from thepiratebay and displays the top results in reverse order, so the 1st result is at the bottom instead of the top -- which is better for command line users

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/ just copy the .mov link and use mplayer to stream

use python as calculator, press ctrl+d to exit reminder: when doing factions add atleast one decimal number like so 22.0/7 or 22/7.0 Show Sample Output

awk reverse order of lines (emulates "tac")

Change Random Wallpaper on Gnome 3

Same as 7272 but that one was too dangerous so i added -P to prompt users to continue or cancel Note the double space: "...^ii␣␣linux-image-2..." Like 5813, but fixes two bugs: [1]This leaves the meta-packages 'linux-headers-generic' and 'linux-image-generic' alone so that automatic upgrades work correctly in the future. [2]Kernels newer than the currently running one are left alone (this can happen if you didn't reboot after installing a new kernel).

requires sp-auth installed This command will auto kill sp-sc after vlc is closed, so u wont have to do it manually

you need to have plowshare installed http://code.google.com/p/plowshare/ plowshare supports Megaupload, Rapidshare, 2Shared, 4Shared, ZShare, Badongo, Divshare.com, Depositfiles, Netload.in, Sendspace, Usershare, x7.to and some others file sharing services.

This shows a list of channels from seeon.tv website to watch shows and movies

Use this to make a launcher for Java apps ( .jar files ) such as with jdownloader

Change the launcher of catfish to use a different file manager Example: using Find catfish --fileman=nautilus --path=/home/ --hidden --method=find using Locate catfish --fileman=pcmanfm --path=/ --hidden --method=locate Update Locate DB sudo updatedb

Middle click on titlebar to minimize apps

kills all wine running apps and processes. Make a hotkey for it when running wine games in fullscreen and it locks. This is a great way to escape from it.