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Capture data in ASCII. 1500 bytes
Sniffing traffic on port 80 only the first 1500 bytes

aptitude easter eggs
this is a reference to Antoine de St. Exupery's "The Little Prince"

Download YouTube Videos using wget and youtube-dl and just using the video link
in place of "output-filename.mp4" put the name you want the file to be named with. in place of "youtube-video-link" put the link of the Video page eg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AclA-7YntvE in place of "format-number" put the number of the file format you would like How to get the "format-number" to get format number type in below command before running this command $ youtube-dl -F "youtube-video-link" and it will list all the available formats with the format number, like to download in 360p mp4 use the number "18" To automatically let it fetch the best quality available just remove the -f "format-number" and you are good to go.

Dump bash command history of an active shell user.

find files ignoring .svn and its decendents

Delete a file/directory walking subdirectories (bash4 or zsh)

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

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

lists files and folders in a folder
lists files and folders in a folder with summary.

Hear the mice moving
Beeps on mouse's every move. Bear in mind that, at least on Ubuntu, /dev/input/mice can be read only by root.


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