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Extract tarball from internet without local saving

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Multiple variable assignments from command output in BASH
This version uses read instead of eval.

Show linux kernel modules dependencies
Use modprobe to list all the dependencies of a certain kernel module. Handy when debugging system issues.

convert doc to pdf
convert to pdf and many other formats and vise versa to get a list of supported formats, run $ unoconv --show

find an unused unprivileged TCP port
Some commands (such as netcat) have a port option but how can you know which ports are unused?

Fetch the current human population of Earth

Quick way to sum every numbers in a file written line by line
If you have a file full of numbers written line by line, you can sum every line to get the total. With a file like this: 3443535 9878977 67554 987798 232324 you will got: 14610188

Search commandlinefu.com from the command line using the API
for me the above command didn't work for more than one argument but this one does

List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

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