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Remove several files with ease
Rather than typing out all 10 files, you can use brace expansion to do the trick for you. This is useful for backup files, numbered files, or any files with a repeating pattern. Gives more control than 'rm file*' as I might want to keep others around.

Quick and dirty hardware summary
Quick and dirty hardware summary where lshw is not available. Requires util-linux, procps, pciutils, usbutils and net-tools, which should be preinstalled on most systems.

log your PC's motherboard and CPU temperature along with the current date
Uses the data in the /proc system, provided by the acpid, to find out the CPU temperature. Can be run on systems without lm-sensors installed as well.

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

Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase
Usage examples: say hello say "hello world" say hello+world

Google Translate
allow multiword translations

Find the package that installed a command

Copy a file with progress and save hash to a different file

bulk rename files with sed, one-liner
Far from my favorite, but works in sh and with an old sed that doesn't support '-E'

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