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list current ssh clients

Show account security settings
Show account security settings

Does a full update and cleaning in one line

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

View user activity per directory.
View all files opened by a user in specified directory. The +D option makes lsof search all sub-directories to complete depth, while ignoring symbolic links.

Rename files in batch

Check a server is up. If it isn't mail me.
This version uses netcat to check a particular service.

An alias to select a portion of your desktop and save it as an image.

Mouse Tracking
Will track your mouse and save it to a file. You can use gnuplot to graph it: $ gnuplot -persist

Generate random valid mac addresses
Doubt it actually generates valid mac addresses but this version doesn't need any external commands so it runs much faster. Much shorter as well.


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