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Short list of all ip. Shows even the newly supported multiple ip address on the same interface (see eth1). For ipv6 use -6

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Handle any bad named file which contains ",',\n,\b,\t,` etc Store the file name as null character separated list $find . -print0 >name.lst and retrieve it using $read -r -d "" Eg: $find . -print0 >name.lst; $cat name.lst| while IFS="" read -r -d "" file; $do $ls -l "$file"; $done

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burn backed up xbox 360 games
burn all those sweet iso's from the command line. replace speed=2 with more if your media supports it and you're brave!

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sort list of email addresses by domain.tld
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Binary digits Matrix effect
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Waiting for a key stroke. You can use this with a ";" behind to build a command chain.

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