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Takes and displays screenshot of Android phone over adb.
Dependencies on phone: adb access, screencap command, base64 command. Dependencies on computer: adb, sed, base64, display (from imagemagick, but can substitute other image viewer which reads from stdin). This should work around adb stupidies (i.e. that it replaces \n with \r\n) with base64.

File rotation without rename command
Rotates log files with "gz"-extension in a directory for 7 days and enumerates the number in file name. i.e.: logfile.1.gz > logfile.2.gz I needed this line due to the limitations on AIX Unix systems which do not ship with the rename command.

Rename files in batch

Read aloud a text file in Mac OS X

ping a host until it responds, then play a sound, then exit
Audio acknowledgement for host availability. When running the command from a Linux systems, you can use "festival" or "espeak" instead of "say".

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

how to export a table in .csv file
Exports the result of query in a csv file

Append last argument to last command
Just like "!$", except it does it instantly. Then you can hit enter if you want.

Create MySQL-Dump, copy db to other Server and upload the db.
This option makes a copy of your current db and via ssh it transfer to the server you specify and upload the database to the specific User & Password you specify (Note the db User & Pass, can be different from the one you use in the other server) If you are going to use "localhost" as your main db remove (-h) and youst add "localhost"

Google URL shortener
Shorter and made into a function.

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