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Get ssh server fingerprints
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Lists installed kernels

Delete DOS Characters via VIM (^M)
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Validate openssh key & print checksum

A signal trap that logs when your script was killed and what other processes were running at that time
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Nmap list IPs in a network and saves in a txt

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