pwgen generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords.
pwgen can be used to generate strong passwords and is very handy if you have to come up with lots of passwords for user accounts. Typing “pwgen” will default to listing 8 colums of passwords, but you can also “pwgen -1″ to be given just one. Lots of switches […]

shc - Shell script compiler
shc will create a stripped binary executable version of a shell script. There is no improvement in the speed of the script, it is just a way to keep people from modifing or seeing what your script is doing. In most cases “shc -f scriptname.sh” is all you need to compile.

xclip - command line interface to X selections (clipboard)
This little program is very useful for taking command line output and sending it directly into the clipboard for pasting. Simply run the command that you want to get the output from and pipe it into xclip. As an example, running dmesg | xclip will provide you […]