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Pastebin

Pastebin.com and similar websites make it quick and easy to share snippets of code, data, or text.

There is a command line version for Ubuntu. Install it with...

sudo apt install pastebinit

Use it with...

pastebinit file.txt
cat file.txt | pastebinit
/my/program | pastebinit

Calculator

echo $[1+1]

or

echo "scale=2; 2/3" | bc

Thanks to Basically Tech.

Rounding Numbers

echo "1.23456789 1.23456789" | awk '{printf "%s %.0f\n",$1,$2}'

Weather

sudo aptitude install weather-util-data weather-util

Thanks to OMGUbuntu.