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Google text-to-speech in mp3 format
EDIT: command updated to support accented characters! Works in any of 58 google supported languages (some sound like crap, english is the best IMO). You get a mp3 file containing your query in spoken language. There is a limit of 100 characters for the "q" parameter, so be careful. The "tl" parameter contains target language.

cpu and memory usage top 10 under Linux
The original version gives an error, here is the correct output

recursively change file name from uppercase to lowercase (or viceversa)
or, to process a single directory: $ for f in *; do mv $f `echo $f |tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`; done

return a titlecased version of the string
Needs Bash4. Found at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2264428/converting-string-to-lower-case-in-bash-shell-scripting alongside a few other tricks.

list all opened ports on host
in loop, until the last port (65535), list all opened ports on host. in the sample I used localhost, but you can replace with any host to test.

Display list of available printers

Search some text from all files inside a directory

Send apache log to syslog-ng
Send apache log to syslog-ng server without change configuration of syslog. Just add in httpd.conf or vhost conf.

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

Print IP of any interface. Useful for scripts.

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