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

Join lines
It's works only when you replace '\n' to ONE character.

Encode/Decode text to/from Base64 on a Mac w/out Mac Ports
I have a mac, and do not want to install mac ports to get the base64 binary. Using openssl will do the trick just fine. Note, to decode base64, specify a '-d' after 'base64' in the command. Note also the files base64.decoded.txt and base64.encoded.txt are text files.

Read all the S.M.A.R.T. data from a hard disk drive
This is to pull all the saved S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) information from a hard drive. This can give you an idea of the nature and extent of an issue on a failing hard drive.

Fire CMD every time FILE (or directory) is updated (on *BSD)

Rename files in batch

Nicely display mem usage with ps
Nicely display mem usage with ps.

Extract IPv4 addressess from file

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

Show word-by-word differences between two latex files, in color

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