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Make Kali Linux look less suspicious by making the desktop look more like a windows machine
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Terminate a frozen SSH-session
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Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance
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run complex remote shell cmds over ssh, without escaping quotes
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Sort file greater than a specified size in human readeable format including their path and typed by color, running from current directory
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Puts every word from a file into a new line
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start a tunnel from some machine's port 80 to your local post 2001
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