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

Generate a random password 30 characters long

test moduli file generated for openssh
this command test the moduli file generated by the command ssh-keygen -G /tmp/moduli-2048.candidates -b 2048 . The test can be long depend of your cpu power , around 5 minutes to 30 minutes

Display Dilbert strip of the day
Requires display. Corrected version thanks to sputnick and eightmillion user.

Use a var with more text only if it exists
See "Parameter Expansion" in the bash manpage. They refer to this as "Use Alternate Value", but we're including the var in the at alternative.

quick input
Insert the last argument to the previous command

List processes playing sound
When trying to play a sound you may sometimes get an error saying that your sound card is already used, but not by what process. This will list all processes playing sound, useful to kill processes that you no longer need but that keep using your sound card.

Find all dot files and directories

Finds all files from / on down over specified size.
Very useful for finding all files over a specified size, such as out of control log files chewing up all available disk space. Fedora Core x specific version.

Chronometer in hour format
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