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Simulate typing
This will output the characters at 10 per second.

Sort processes by CPU Usage
Short list about top 10 processes, sorted by CPU usage

Execute a command on multiple hosts in parallel
Ssh to host1, host2, and host3, executing on each host and saving the output in {host}.log. I don't have the 'parallel' command installed, otherwise it sounds interesting and less cryptic.

list files recursively by size

Count opening and closing braces in a string.
This function counts the opening and closing braces in a string. This is useful if you have eg long boolean expressions with many braces and you simply want to check if you didn't forget to close one.

Create a new file

Get a process's pid by supplying its name

Ultimate current directory usage command
An NCurses version of the famous old 'du' unix command

Copy history from one terminal to another
Or just do history -w before opening another terminal.

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

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