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Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Perform Real-time Process Monitoring Using Watch Utility

Build an exhaustive list of maildir folders for mutt
Of course, you can adjust "Maildir" to your config...

Play random music from blip.fm

Download all recently uploaded pastes on pastebin.com

Get your external IP address if your machine has a DNS entry
Easy way to see your real external IP

calulate established tcp connection of local machine
worked on ubuntu 9.04 and cygwin with MS netstat

detect the fastest ldap server on a intranet
This command line detect ldap hosts, by mandatory dns entry, then ping them to detect response average. based on ping response average it sorts and print the faster server in first output line

Erase empty files
The command find search commands with size zero and erase them.

Search google and show only urls
Get the first 10 google results form a querry, but showing only the urls from the results. Use + to search diferent terms, ex: commandlinefu+google .

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