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Creates a proxy based on tsocks.

Quick and dirty hardware summary
Quick and dirty hardware summary where lshw is not available. Requires util-linux, procps, pciutils, usbutils and net-tools, which should be preinstalled on most systems.

capture selected window
I think, this is a shorter one :)

Number of CPU's in a system
/proc/cpuinfo contains information about the CPU. Search for "processor" in the /proc/cpuinfo file wc -l, counts the number of lines.

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

using scanner device from command line
you have to replace "mustek_usb" with the scanner found by `scanimage -l`

Replace spaces in filenames with underscores

Deleting / Ignoring lines from the top of a file
Output lines starting at line 2.

Email HTML content
Note, this works because smtp is running

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

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