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List the CPU model name

Extracts the model name of the CPU and displays it on screen. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
model name	: Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2080  @ 1.73GHz
model name	: Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2080  @ 1.73GHz
```
3

grep "model name" /proc/cpuinfo

getkaizer · 2009-11-05 05:23:30 0
geoip information

Not my script. Belongs to mathewbauer. Used without his permission. This script gives a single line as shown in the sample output. NOTE: I have blanked out the IP address for obvious security reasons. But you will get whatever is your IP if you run the script. Tested working in bash. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
IP: ***.***.*.** Location: new delhi, DELHI, India   (BHARTI INFOTEL LTD.)
```
10

curl -s "http://www.geody.com/geoip.php?ip=$(curl -s icanhazip.com)" | sed '/^IP:/!d;s/<[^>][^>]*>//g'

getkaizer · 2009-11-04 07:15:02 2

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How many Linux and Windows devices are on your network?

Shows how many Windows and Linux devices are on your network. May add support for others, but that's all that are on my network right now.

Retry the previous command until it exits successfully

Executes the previously-run command constantly until it returns 0 (success). Put a

Convert a date to timestamp

Simple way to get a timestamp from a date

Save your open windows to a file so they can be opened after you restart

This will save your open windows to a file (~/.windows). To start those applications: $ cat ~/.windows | while read line; do $line &; done Should work on any EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager. If you use DWM or another Window Manager not using EWMH or NetWM try this: $ xwininfo -root -children | grep '^ ' | grep -v children | grep -v '' | sed -n 's/^ *$0x[0-9a-f]*$ .*/\1/p' | uniq | while read line; do xprop -id $line _NET_WM_PID | sed -n 's/.* = $[0-9]*$$/\1/p'; done | uniq -u | grep -v '^$' | while read line; do ps -o cmd= $line; done > ~/.windows

combine `mkdir foo && cd foo` into a single function `mcd foo`

I find that I create a directory and then cd into that directory quite often. I found this little function on the internets somewhere and thought I'd share it. Just copy-paste it into you ~/.bash_profile and then `source ~/.bash_profile`.

Create a single-use TCP proxy with copy to stdout

USAGE: gate listening_port host port Creates listening socket and connects to remote device at host:port. It uses pipes for connection between two sockets. Traffic which goes through pipes is wrote to stdout. I use it for debug network scripts.

Using Git, stage all manually deleted files.

Find passwords that has been stored as plain text in NetworkManager

a function to find the fastest DNS server

http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list.

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