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

Complete TCP Handshake on a given host-port
Try to perform a fully TCP 3 way handshake on for a given host-port with a timeout of 1s.

get all Amazon cloud (amazonws etc) ipv6 subnets

Find the modified time (mtime) for a file

Output files without comments or empty lines
better integration. works on all Unices works one bash and ksh.

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

save your current environment as a bunch of defaults

Quickly display a string as Qr Code
Takes the first argument (string) and display a Qr code version of that.

Copy history from one terminal to another
Or just do history -w before opening another terminal.

check open ports without netstat or lsof


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