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list file descriptors opened by a process
Useful for examining hostile processes (backdoors,proxies)

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

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

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

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

rclone - include Service account blobs to your config
For easy portability you can include you service account blobs directly to your rclone config. So it generate a rclone config like the following: [dst977] type = drive scope = drive service_account_credentials = {"type":"service_account","project_id":"saf-ju66hcgi8qf8zidhvfww4oxwe7","private[.................] }

Get info about a GitHub user
In this example 'git' is the user name and the output format is YAML but you can change this to XML or JSON, eg: curl http://github.com/api/v1/json/usernamehere

List manually installed packages (excluding Essentials)

Record and share your terminal
It replays plain text terminal screencast from http://shelr.tv/

check open ports without netstat or lsof


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