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Extract title from HTML files
Case Insensitive! and Works even if the "<title>...</title>" spans over multiple line. Simple! :-)

Using scapy to get the IP of the iface used to contact local gw (i.e. supposed host IP)
You need python-scapy package

tcpdump from src to dst
then open with wireshark

Multi-thread any command
For instance: $ find . -type f -name '*.wav' -print0 |xargs -0 -P 3 -n 1 flac -V8 will encode all .wav files into FLAC in parallel. Explanation of xargs flags: -P [max-procs]: Max number of invocations to run at once. Set to 0 to run all at once [potentially dangerous re: excessive RAM usage]. -n [max-args]: Max number of arguments from the list to send to each invocation. -0: Stdin is a null-terminated list. I use xargs to build parallel-processing frameworks into my scripts like the one here: http://pastebin.com/1GvcifYa

Watch active calls on an Asterisk PBX
Works on asterisk 1.8.

Fill up disk space (for testing)
Put into some file. No special purpouse, just for fun...

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

Delete recursively only empty folders on present dir

The scene in the Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
Let's take a rest. How about watch a horror? The Shining http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)

Convert JSON to YAML (unicode safe)
If you tried the other Python version of Convert JSON to YAML and you end up with lines that has "!!python/unicode", this version of the command is for you.

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