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Part of the "atool" package.

Show current iptables rules, with line numbers

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Stop Flash from tracking everything you do.
Brute force way to block all LSO cookies on a Linux system with the non-free Flash browser plugin. Works just fine for my needs. Enjoy.

Run a program transparently, but print a stack trace if it fails
For automated unit tests I wanted my program to run normally, but if it crashed, to add a stack trace to the output log. I came up with this command so I wouldn't have to mess around with core files. The one downside is that it does smoosh your program's stderr and stdout together.

Find the package a command belongs to on debian-based distros

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

sniff network traffic on a given interface and displays the IP addresses of the machines communicating with the current host (one IP per line)

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Move all files in subdirectories to current dir


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