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View ~/.ssh/known_hosts key information
Will return the SSH server key information for each host you have in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file, including key size, key fingerprint, key IP address or domain name, and key type.

list files recursively by size

Remove all the characters before last space per line including it

Convert epoch date to human readable date format in a log file.

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

Test speaker channels
Useful tool to test if all speaker channels are working properly. speaker-test is part of alsa-utils package

Look for English words in /dev/urandom
Little faster alternative.

Discovering all open files/dirs underneath a directory
It may be helpful in case you need to umount a directory and some process is preventing you to do so keeping the folder busy. The lsof may process the +D option slowly and may require a significant amount of memory because it will descend the full dir tree. On the other hand it will neither follow symlinks nor other file systems.

while using lxde and being blinded by your laptop screen, you can type:
I'm not sure what apt this is, but it seems to work on most X screens, an is useful for saving power, and not straining your eyes


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