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Rapidly invoke an editor to write a long, complex, or tricky command
Allows you to edit your command using your chosen editor. Works in bash with "set -o vi".

List files by quoting or escaping special characters.
Tested and works on Linux.

vim read stdin

Command line calculator
works with fractions like 1/3.5

When was your OS installed?

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

dump the whole database

Ping all hosts on 192.168.1.0/24
Will report back IP address's of all hosts that are UP.

Amazing real time picture of the sun in your wallpaper
Changes the wallpaper for the last IR picture of the sun taken by SOHO satellite. Lesser size, try $ curl http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/eit_195/512/latest.jpg | xli -onroot -fullscreen -xzoom 120 -yzoom 120 -border black stdin I use inside kalarm(kde), updating every 15 minutes needs xli , curl

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

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