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Copy your SSH public key on a remote machine for passwordless login.
Should run on any system with ssh installed.

String to binary
Cool but useless.

Rename all files in lower case
rename is a really powerfull to, as its name suggests, rename files

Display / view the contents of the manifest within a Java jar file
Displays the manifest within a jar file. Can use it to confirm version number, etc.

Killing processes with your mouse in an infinite loop
Useful for quickly cleaning your Desktop. Nice joke if launched at startup.

Find and list users who talk like "lolcats"
Greps IRC logs for phrases and lists users who said them.

Perl one-liner to determine number of days since the Unix epoch
There are some environments that use this value for password and account expiration. It's helpful to be able to quickly determine the number of days since the Unix epoch (dse) when working directly with the configuration files as an administrator.

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Geolocate a given IP address
Defines a function to geolocate a given IP address; if none supplied, will default to your external IP address.

Use curl with a local SOCKS5 proxy (e.g. Tor)
Routes curl input through a local SOCKS5 proxy; in this case, anonymizes curl activity via The Onion Router (Tor) proxy running locally. Note that the traffic will be anonymized, but it will NOT be encrypted, so your traffic will be very vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

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