Title: Theory / Unimportant / CS / command line / todo

Instruction: base64 file
Page: man
Returns: file encoding in base64

Instruction: boxes
Page: man
Context: Shell
Returns: input text enclosed in some box

Instruction: bvi
Page: man
Effect: binary vi

Instruction: clive
Effect: flash video downloader

Instruction: dvipdfmx
Effect: dvi to pdf converter

Instruction: enfuse
Effect: poor man's HDR

Instruction: get_flash_videos
Effect: yet another flash video downloader

Instruction: glark
Effect: advanced grep

Instruction: indent
Effect: code beautifier

Instruction: lshw
Effect: list hardware configuration

Instruction: mcurl
Effect: multiple part downloader using curl

Instruction: mktemp
Effect: safely create temporary files and directories

Instruction: msort
Effect: sort records in complex ways

Instruction: netbrake
Effect: bandwidth limiter

Instruction: od
Effect: octal dump

Instruction: par
Effect: paragraph reformatter

Instruction: par2
Effect: archive verification and repair tool

Instruction: ped
Effect: sed done right with perl

Instruction: pinfo
Effect: color info reader

Instruction: pipe.vim
Effect: make vim part of a unix pipe and allow it to edit the pipe contents

Instruction: pv
Effect: Pipe Viewer: a tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipe

Instruction: pydf
Effect: pretty df (disk space viewer)

Instruction: qmv
Effect: use your favorite editor to rename files (part of renameutils)

Instruction: qodem
Effect: modem program that can do serial, telnet, ssh, zmodem, kermit, etc

Instruction: recode
Effect: like dos2unix and unix2dos, but with many more encodings

Instruction: recordmydesktop
Effect: make screencast videos

Instruction: rkhunter
Effect: find rootkit infections

Instruction: rlwrap
Effect: add readline editing support to any command

Instruction: safecopy
Effect: data recovery tool (better than dd)

Instruction: sponge
Effect: soak up stdin and write to a file (for things like pipeline editing)

Instruction: sux
Effect: su while transferring X credentials

Instruction: unbuffer
Effect: force flushing of stdout

Instruction: upx
Effect: executable compressor

Instruction: utimer
Effect: countdown timer and stopwatch

Instruction: vared
Effect: edit shell variables (part of zsh)

Instruction: watch
Effect: run a command multiple times and display the output (with differences highlighted)

Instruction: xdotool
Effect: simulate keyboard and mouse activity

Instruction: xxd
Effect: hex dump

Instruction: zargs
Effect: a version of xargs that makes the find command redundant (part of zsh)

Instruction: zrun
Effect: automatically uncompress arguments to command