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find your release version of your ubuntu / debian distro

Find files with at least one exec bit set

Which files/dirs waste my disk space
I added -S to du so that you don't include /foo/bar/baz.iso in /foo, and change sorts -n to -h so that it can properly sort the human readable sizes.

Set laptop display brightness
Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

Log your internet download speed
This will log your internet download speed. You can run $gnuplot -persist

Find installed network devices
Find installed network devices.

Comment current line
This should work with different locales. Another post reports

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

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

Follow the most recently updated log files
This command finds the 5 (-n5) most frequently updated logs in /var/log, and then does a multifile tail follow of those log files. Alternately, you can do this to follow a specific list of log files: sudo tail -n0 -f /var/log/{messages,secure,cron,cups/error_log}


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