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Scans for open ports using telnet

runs a bash script in debugging mode

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Protect against buffer overflow
This command solve the problem ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available to.

Simulate typing

list files recursively by size

Enable verbose boot in Mac OS X Open Firmware

Get My Public IP Address

Detect encoding of a text file
This command gives you the charset of a text file, which would be handy if you have no idea of the encoding.

ssh autocomplete based on ~/.ssh/config
I sue this in my .bashrc file This will also do auto-completion for scp and sftp


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