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Print all open regular files sorted by the number of file handles open to each.
This command run fine on my Ubuntu machine, but on Red Hat I had to change the awk command to `awk '{print $10}'`.

disable caps lock
a quick one-line way to disable caps lock while running X.

Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one
faster ;) but your idea is really cool

Rename files in batch

list files recursively by size

Multi line grep using sed and specifying open/close tags
This line does not include your closing tag in the output.

Fake system time before running a command
Fake system time before running any command.

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

Download all files from podcast RSS feed
Neither of the others worked for me. This does.

left-right mouse buttons (left-handed)


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