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list files recursively by size

full path listing in /directory/path/* of javascript files.
file listing in /directory/path/* of specific files such as javascript(js) .

Join lines and separate with spaces
Read vmargs.txt, which is a text file that could either be DOS-style (\r\n) or UNIX-style (\n) line endings and join the lines with a space separator. Can this be shortened/made more elegant?

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

Gets directory and files tree listing from a FTP-server
Creates a file with contents like `du -a`, only it is remote server filesystem hierarchy. Very usefull then for grep-ing without remote connection.

list files recursively by size

Convert diff output to HTML ins/del

Copy file content to X clipboard
(only when vim has been compiled with +clipboard)

See system users

Count lines in a file with grep
Returns the number of lines in a file, emulates "wc -l" behavior with grep.

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