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Run entire shell script as root
Placing sudo in the shebang line of a shell script runs the entire thing as root. Useful for scripts designed to, e.g. automate system upgrades or package manager wrappers — makes prepending everything with sudo no longer necessary

Given $PID, print all child processes on stdout
Simpler.

Sort files in folders alphabetically
Creates one letter folders in the current directory and moves files with corresponding initial in the folder.

Start COMMAND, and kill it if still running after 5 seconds

Find the package that installed a command

Btrfs: Find file names with checksum errors
Btrfs reports the inode numbers of files with failed checksums. Use `find` to lookup the file names of those inodes. The files may need to be deleted and replaced with backups.

View internet connection activity in a browser
In addition to generating the current connections, it also opens then in your default browser on gnome.

Download Video & extract only a specific Time of it
Because this does not download more of the video than necessary, it is faster (especially with long videos).

speedtest
alias speedtest='wget --output-document=/dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip'

Get simple weather info from a zip code
$ weather 97405

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