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history autocompletion with arrow keys
This will enable the possibility to navigate in the history of the command you type with the arrow keys, example "na" and the arrow will give all command starting by na in the history.You can add these lines to your .bashrc (without &&) to use that in your default terminal.

firefox: how many eat?

Check whether laptop is running on battery or cable
If you want to do the same in OS X... grep as necessary for information you need....

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Google Translate
Usage: $ translate Example: $ translate hello en es See this for a list of language codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

Short URLs with is.gd
No curl and no sed, just wget :)

a function to find the fastest DNS server
http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list.

Infinite loop ssh
Useful when you wait for a server to boot up.

using scanner device from command line
you have to replace "mustek_usb" with the scanner found by `scanimage -l`

calulate established tcp connection of local machine

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