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  1. Pager
  2. Free memory
  3. Set time (BIOS)
  4. Set time (NTP)
    1. Set time with permanent Internet connection
    2. Set time with sporadic Internet connection
  5. How to control console features such as the screensaver
  6. Search administrative database
  7. Disable sound (beep)
  8. Error messages on the console screen
  9. Set console to the correct type
  10. Get the console back to a sane state
  11. Convert a text file from DOS to Unix style
  12. Convert a text file with recode
  13. Regular-expression substitution
  14. Edit a file in place using a script
  15. Extract differences and merge updates for source files
  16. Convert a large file into small files
  17. Extract data from text file table
  18. Script snippets for piping commands
  19. Script snippets for looping over each file
  20. Perl short script madness
  21. Get text or a mailing list archive from a web page
  22. Pretty print a web page
  23. Pretty print a manual page
  24. Merge two PostScript or PDF files
  25. Time a command
  26. nice command
  27. Schedule activity (cron, at)
  28. Console switching with screen
    1. Remote access scenario
    2. Typical screen commands
    3. Backspace and/or Ctrl-H in screen session
    4. Equivalent program to screen for X
  29. Network testing basics
  30. Flush mail from local spool
  31. Remove frozen mail from local spool
  32. Redeliver mbox contents
  33. Clear file contents
  34. Dummy files
  35. chroot
    1. Run a different Debian distribution with chroot
    2. Setting up login for chroot
    3. Setting up X for chroot
    4. Run other distributions with chroot
    5. Build a package with chroot
  36. How to check hard links
  37. mount hard disk image file
  38. Samba
  39. Utilities for foreign filesystems
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