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Generate hash( of some types) from string

No need to install yet another program when openssl is already installed. :-)
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openssl dgst -sha256 <<<"test"

dramaturg · 2010-12-05 17:34:06 8
Get your local IP regardless of your network interface

This also works on non-Linux machines. If you have GNU sed you can do it more elegantly: ifconfig | sed -n 's/^\s*inet $addr:$\?$[^\s]*$ .*/\2/;T;/^127\./d;p'
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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ifconfig | sed -ne 's/^.*inet $addr:$*$[^ ]*$.*/\2/;te' -e 'd;:e' -e '/^127\./d;p'

dramaturg · 2010-12-05 17:14:57 4
Retrieve a random command from the commandlinefu.com API

Seeing that we get back plain text anyway we don't need lynx. Also the sed-part removes the credit line.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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wget -qO - http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random/plaintext | sed -n '1d; /./p'

dramaturg · 2010-12-05 15:32:14 12

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Mount a Windows share on the local network (Ubuntu) with user rights and use a specific samba user

list block devices

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

Find the files that contain a certain term

Simple use of find and grep to recursively search a directory for files that contain a certain term.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Convert .flv to .avi

List installed deb packages by size

background a wget download

A "Web 2.0" domain name generator and look for register availability

You would need pwgen installed first, on ubuntu you can get it by apt-get $ sudo apt-get install pwgen

capture mysql queries sent to server

Clear terminal Screen

Probably the quickest / easiest way to clear the screen.

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