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Print text string vertically, one character per line.

notify brightness level [custom]
Brightness indicator to be used in scripts that adjust brightness [especially sys that doesn't support automatically]

encrypt whole line with ROT13 in vim

Command Line to Get the Stock Quote via Yahoo
Retrieve the current stock price from Yahoo Finance. The output is simply the latest price (which could be delayed). If you want to look up stock for a different company, replace csco with your symbol.

Binary clock
Fun idea! This one adds seconds and keeps running on the same line. Perl's probably cheating though. :)

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Super Speedy Hexadecimal or Octal Calculations and Conversions to Decimal.
^Hexadecimal Ten minus Octal Ten is Eight(in Decimal). $ echo "$(( 0xaf )) = $(( 0257 ))" ^Hexadecimal AF and Octal 257 are both Decimal 175.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

find process associated with a port
e.g. fuser 25/tcp (see which pid is listening on smtp)

ps grep with header
Yet another ps grep function, but this one includes the column headings.

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