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List recorded formular fields of Firefox
When you fill a formular with Firefox, you see things you entered in previous formulars with same field names. This command list everything Firefox has registered. Using a "delete from", you can remove anoying Google queries, for example ;-)

know the current running shell (the true)
Return the current shell. It is better than print $SHELL which can sometimes return a false value.

Use default value if unassigned
Will use variable value (for variable $my_dir, in this case), an assign a default value if there is none.

Close specify detached screen
-X Send the specified command to a running screen session. -S Option to specify the screen session if you have several screen sessions running. $screen -ls for listing current screens and its sessionname

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In this Linux box i need to become root to get the complete hardware list, so either become root before or call it with sudo as i did, your choice.

Get your outgoing IP address

Search some text from all files inside a directory

back ssh from firewalled hosts
host B (you) redirects a modem port (62220) to his local ssh. host A is a remote machine (the ones that issues the ssh cmd). once connected port 5497 is in listening mode on host B. host B just do a ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 5497 -l user and reaches the remote host'ssh. This can be used also for vnc and so on.

Extracting a range of pages from a PDF, using GhostScript
In this example we extract pages 14-17

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