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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#              bash 4.1.5(1)     Linux Ubuntu 10.04           Date : 2011-01-16
#
# _______________|  uniqnosort : get unique lines WITHOUT sorting.
#
#           Usage:  uniqnosort  [file, or use as pipe]
#
#              NB:  More famous "uniq" requires duplicates on adjacent lines. 
#                   If you really want to sort and get uniques,
#                   try "sort -u" rather than "sort | uniq".

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#              bash 4.1.5(1)     Linux Ubuntu 10.04              Date : 2011-08-25
#
# _______________|  httpstatus : get HTTP status code
#
#           Usage:  httpstatus URL [timeout] [--code or --status] [see 4.]
#                                                       ^message with code (default) 
#                                             ^code (numeric only)
#                                  ^in secs (default: 3)
#                              ^URL without "http://" prefix works fine.

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#              bash 4.1.5(1)     Linux Ubuntu 10.04           Date : 2019-01-02
#
# _______________|  noise : ambient Brown noise generator (cf. white noise).
#
#           Usage:  noise  [minutes=59]  [band-pass freq center=1786]  [wave]
#                          ^minutes can be any positive integer.
#                           Command "noise 1" will display peak-level meter.
#
#    Dependencies:  play (from sox package)

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#              bash 4.1.5(1)     Linux Ubuntu 10.04               Date : 2013-07-11
#
# _______________|  netspeed : check download speed via command line.
#
#           Usage:  netspeed [tokyo, london, usw, use, east, west, URL]
#                                            ^default U.S. west coast.
#                            [ -speed_KB/sec ]
#                              ^negation activates the Mbps converter.
#

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#              bash 4.1.5(1)     Linux Ubuntu 10.04           Date : 2011-12-10
#
# _______________|  flippar : reverse order of paragraph blocks
#                             (delimited by two or more newlines;
#                              last block is exempt from this rule).
#
#           Usage:  flippar  [filename (pipe acceptable)]
#
#    Dependencies:  tac (from package 'coreutils' in main)

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#              bash 4.1.5(1)     Linux Ubuntu 10.04           Date : 2011-12-14
#
# _______________|  prepend : insert text above given line number or pattern.
#
#           Usage:  prepend  ["text"] [filename=stdin] [linenum=1 OR pattern]
#
#         Example:  prepend "TEST1\nTEST2" foo 3
#                   #  insert two test lines above the third line in file foo.
#                   sort foo | prepend "Sorted result:"

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#              bash 4.1.5(1)     Linux Ubuntu 10.04           Date : 2012-01-15
#
# _______________|  country : look-up country ISO code or currency symbol.
#
#           Usage:  country  [term]  ["iso"|"fx"]
#                      where                "fx" is foreign exchange,
#                                     "iso" is the default option,
#                             term is case-insensitive regular expression.
#

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#              bash 4.1.5(1)     Linux Ubuntu 10.04           Date : 2012-02-04
#
# _______________|  lstest : list files by type, optionally show further info.
#
#           Usage:  lstest  [test flag] [-0|-1|-A|-i|-I|-a] [--count]
#
#                                                       ^attributes
#                                                    ^terse "stat"
#                                                 ^info via "stat"

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#              bash 4.1.5(1)     Linux Ubuntu 10.04           Date : 2012-02-17
#
# _______________|  digy : tame DNS utility dig with reasonable options.
#
#           Usage:  digy  [address]  [rev|name|short|mail|all|long|longa|who]
#
#        Examples:     % digy friendfeed.com
#                      69.63.180.52
#                      #  default second argument is 'short'

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#              bash 3.2.25(1)    Ubuntu 7.10                  Date : 2012-02-15
#
# _______________|  freqy : sort and order lines by frequency of appearance.
#
#           Usage:  freqy  [optional: file(s)]
#
#           Notes:  Will work in a pipe.
#                   Does not alter the file(s) themselves.
#