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

shuffle lines via bash
Using perl in a one-liner is a bit overkill to randomly sort some input. `sort` from coreutils should be enough.

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

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

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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"

list files recursively by size

Compute the average number of KB per file for each dir
Shorter version using --tag

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Find the location of the currently loaded php.ini file
Quick and easy way to find out which php.ini file is being used. Especially useful if you just need to find the location of the file for editing purposes.


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