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9 really odd Linux commands

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Sandra Henry-Stocker
Feb 23, 2016

You can probably make your Unix systems hum — deliver great performance, withstand threats to file system integrity, resist hacker attacks, report problems, and run smoothly no matter what your users throw at them. But can you make them do goofy things? Let’s look at a collection of some really oddball tools that you might never have heard of are tried.
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