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Perl oneliner to print access rights in octal format
This prints file access rights in octal - useful when "stat" is unavailable.

Get the IP address of a machine. Just the IP, no junk.
Why use many different utilities all piped together, when you only need two?

Find the modified time (mtime) for a file

Send a backup job to a remote tape drive on another machine over SSH
I use this all the time for taking manual backups of stuff i want to keep but not important enough to backup regularly.

Displays the number of processes per state

Generate SSH public key from the private key

list files recursively by size

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

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

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

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