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Lists all listening ports together with the PID of the associated process
The PID will only be printed if you're holding a root equivalent ID.

Print all git repos from a user

Get the Volume labels all bitlocker volumes had before being encrypted
Get information of volume labels of bitlocker volumes, even if they are encrypted and locked (no access to filesystem, no password provided). Note that the volume labels can have spaces, but only if you name then before encryption. Renaming a bitlocker partition after being encrypted does not have the same effect as doing it before.

How fast is the connexion to a URL, some stats from curl

Print the 10 deepest directory paths

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection
Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

Blink LED Port of NIC Card
Blinks LED of a NIC card. Its used when you have multiple NICs and you want to identify the physical port of a particular ethernet card.

poor man's vpn
this easy to install tool redirects all traffic to internet through ssh. it's very usefull when connecting to free wifi. you need to start it as root because it needs permissions to change iptables settings. ofcourse you also need a shell account

List the binaries installed by a Debian package
GNU grep's perl-compatible regular expression(PCRE).

grep for minus (-) sign
Use flag "--" to stop switch parsing


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