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Get an authorization code from Google
This is a basis for other Google API commands.

clean up memory of unnecessary things (Kernerl 2.6.16 or newer)
run sync first to flush useful things out to disk!!! To free pagecache: echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches To free dentries and inodes: echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches To free pagecache, dentries and inodes: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Poor man's ntpdate

Get video information with ffmpeg
ffprobe is specially intended to get video information

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Create a tar file with the current date in the name.
Same, but count of signs is little less :) .

Get information about memory modules
To take information about the characteristics of the installed memory modules.

OSX command to take badly formatted xml from the clipboard, cleans it up and puts it back into the clipboard.
This command can be used with xclip or xsel for use on a linux box.

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