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ls only directories
Like normal ls, but only lists directories. Can be used with -l to get more details (ls -lad */)

Converts to PDF all the OpenOffice.org files in the directory
Requieres unoconv (debian package)

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

Remove all old kernels
http://askubuntu.com/questions/89710/how-do-i-free-up-more-space-in-boot

Convert JSON to YAML

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

Force GNU/Linux keyboard settings, layout and configuration
Bash snippet to force GNU/Linux keyboard settings, layout and configuration. Usefull when some GNU/Linux distributions such as *Ubuntu's store only limited configation options due to demonstration purposes on LiveUSB or Live persistent devices. Overcomes the English QWERTY to French AZERTY settings failure. Code bash en ligne de commande pour forcer l'adoption du clavier AZERTY sur les cl? USB bootable en Ubuntu.

grep -v with multiple patterns.
You can use -e to pass multiple patterns.

Copy data using gtar
It copies the entire current working directory to the destination directory with compression enabled.

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.


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