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Rapidly invoke an editor to write a long, complex, or tricky command
Allows you to edit your command using your chosen editor. Works in bash with "set -o vi".

Extract tarball from internet without local saving

Print all fields in a file/output from field N to the end of the line

Check if you work on a virtual/physical machine in Linux
Command used to know if we are working on a virtual or physical machine. This command will use the dmidecode utility to retrieve hardware information of your computer via the BIOS. Run this command as root or with sudo.

Terminal Keyboard Shortcut list
This command will give you a list of available keyboard shortcuts according to stty.

Send an http HEAD request w/curl

Broadcast your shell thru UDP on port 5000
Better solution in case of many clients, imo.

Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX

Find the package that installed a command

ThePirateBay.org torrent search
usage: tpb searchterm example: tpb the matrix trilogy This searches for torrents from thepiratebay and displays the top results in reverse order, so the 1st result is at the bottom instead of the top -- which is better for command line users


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