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A DESTRUCTIVE command to render a drive unbootable
Overwrites the boot sector. Since this doesn't overwrite any data, you can usually recover by re-creating the partition table exactly the same as before you zeroed it. This can also help sometimes if you install a new drive in a Windows machine which can't read it.

Display the tree of all instance of a particular process

full path listing in /directory/path/* of javascript files.
file listing in /directory/path/* of specific files such as javascript(js) .

Synchronize date and time with a server over ssh
Set Remote Server Date using Local Server Time (push)

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Top 30 History
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Set an alarm to wake up [2]
Set an alarm to starts in specific time.

Patator: A Hydra brute force alternative

Comparison between the execution output of the last and penultimate command
Useful for checking if there are differences between last and penultimate command.


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