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Get information on your graphics card on linux (such as graphics memory size)
Loop is needed if you have more then one card.

let a cow tell you your fortune

disk space email alert
put it in crontab to get an alert when / is over 89% utilization.

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

grep for minus (-) sign
Use flag "--" to stop switch parsing

enable all bash completions in gentoo

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

Ctrl+S Ctrl+Q terminal output lock and unlock
These are simple shortcuts to pause and continue terminal output, works in most terminals and screen multiplexers like screen. You can use it to catch something if things change too fast, and scroll with Shift + PgUp PgDown. On linux console ScrollLock can also be used.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Display / view the contents of the manifest within a Java jar file
Displays the manifest within a jar file. Can use it to confirm version number, etc.


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