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Find passwords that has been stored as plain text in NetworkManager

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

view certificate details

connect via ssh using mac address
Connect to a machine running ssh using mac address by using the "arp" command

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

Remove comments from files
Use sed to remove comments from a file. In this example the comments begin with #. The command '/^#/d' remove line starting with #. The command 's/#.*$//' remove comments at end of lines.

Find all files with colons and replace with underscores; current directory and below (recursive).

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.

print offsets of file disk for losetup/loop-mount
If you want to mount partitions of an disk image, you need the offsets and sizes of the partitions. This command prints them in the format that losetup understands.

Use the builtin ':' bash command to increment variables
I just found another use for the builtin ':' bash command. It increments counters for me in a loop if a certain condition is met... : [arguments] No effect; the command does nothing beyond expanding arguments and performing any specified redirections. A zero exit code is returned.


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