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Get the full path to a file
Useful in scripts when the file is passed in as an argument. Eg. $ filepath=$(realpath $1)

easily strace all your apache processes
Will open strace on all apache process, on systems using sbin/apache (debian) or sbin/httpd (redhat), and will follow threads newly created.

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

easily strace all your apache processes
Will open strace on all apache process, on systems using sbin/apache (debian) or sbin/httpd (redhat), and will follow threads newly created.

Simplest way to get size (in bytes) of a file

Display ncurses based network monitor
Nload is part of nload package, tested under Debian. Nload display network bandwidth statistics, -u m options stands for MBit unit measure.

Syntax Highlight your Perl code

Remove everything except that file
it will remove everything except the file names matching you can use also use wildcards

Set all CPU cores' CPU frequency scaling governor to maximum performance


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