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Print process run time, average CPU usage, and maximum memory usage on exit
Bash has a built-in time command which provides less functionality than the real time command. Thus we reference /usr/bin/time directly. Since the command isn't very easy to remember you could alias it to something like "cputime" or even just "time".

Use -t when using find and cp
-t, --target-directory=DIRECTORY (copy all SOURCE arguments into DIRECTORY).

Update twitter with Perl
Requires Net::Twitter. Just replace the double quoted strings with the appropriate info.

Non Numeric Check
use to execute a block of code only if $var is numeric

list files recursively by size

remote diff with side-by-side ordering.
more information: man sdiff

List all Windows services on the command line
On Windows 2000 or later, this command will give a listing of all the registered Windows services. You can then know what the name of a command is in order to start and stop it. e.g. $ sc start Apache2.2 or $ net start Apache2.2 Please note that sc will allow the SERVICE_NAME only, while net will allow both SERVICE_NAME and DISPLAY_NAME. Note that the space between the = and the next word are important. Not very unixy, that. http://www.ss64.com/nt/sc.html http://www.ss64.com/nt/net_service.html http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490995.aspx

Get version of loaded kernel module
Returns the version of the kernel module specified as "MODULENAME", when available.

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

Create a listing of all possible permissions and their octal representation.

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