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Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Use top to monitor only all processes with the same name fragment 'foo'
top accecpts a comma separated list of PIDs.

Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usage

Give webpage status code
this function will give you a status webpage code using curl.

recursively change file name from uppercase to lowercase (or viceversa)
easier way to recursively change files to lowercase using rename instead

Synthesize text as speech
The Festival Speech Synthesis System converts text into sound. Or: links -dump http://youfavoritewebsite.com | festival --tts

video thumbnail gallery
thumbnail gallery of video using totem

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

ascii digital clock
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Write comments to your history.
A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.


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