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ROT13 using the tr command

Print info about your real user.
To get your effective user: whoami

Get names of files in /dev, a USB device is attached to
This command lists the names of your USB devices connected and what file in /dev they are using. It's pretty useful if you don't have an automount option in your desktop or you don't have any graphical enviroment.

Simple word scramble
enlubtsqyuse $ cat /tmp/out subsequently

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.

Find the package that installed a command

Hear the mice moving
Beeps on mouse's every move. Bear in mind that, at least on Ubuntu, /dev/input/mice can be read only by root.

List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
Sorted in human readable format.

Graphical tree of sub-directories with files
The command finds every item within the directory and edits the output so that subdirectories are and files are output much like the tree command

Check hashes of files installed by Debian packages, reporting only errors.


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