sparklines in your terminal window. Simply give it a comma or space-separated list of data values, and it'll generate an ANSI-graphics sparkline chart. Brilliant! (via mjd)

a nifty gdb hack; essentially dup()s a couple of files in /tmp in place of fd 1 and 2, then uses the bashism "detach" to nohup the running process

interesting idea; extend "cd" to track which directories you cd to most frequently, then add a command to "jump" to the most-frequently used one which matches a substring you specify

not quite up to par with modern Ubuntu, but still a few interesting ones here for when I'm stuck using the missus' laptop ;)

from Padraig Brady. lots of nice one-liners I wasn't familiar with

worth it for #10: 'Capture video of a linux desktop': '$ ffmpeg -f x11grab -s wxga -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq /tmp/out.mpg'