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

log a command to console and to 2 files separately stdout and stderr

Grab just the title of a youtube video
There's another version on here that uses GET but some people don't have lwp-request, so here's an alternative. It's also a little shorter and should work with most youtube URLs since it truncates at the first &

Find and copy files from subdirectories to the current directory

Get your external IP and Network Info
Gets all kind of info, ifconfig.me rocks ... for just the ip addess you can use ifconfig.me or ifconfig.me/ip

Signals list by NUMBER and NAME
This command seems to achieve the similar/same goal.

Ruby - nslookup against a list of IP`s or FQDN`s
This version uses host and no ruby.

take a look to command before action
add |sh when you agree the list, I often use that method to prevent typos in dangerous or long operations

Determine next available UID
better with accounts on ldap

Copy input sent to a command to stderr
In the above example 'muspi merol' (the output of the first rev command) is sent to stderr and 'lorem ipsum' (the output of the second rev command) is sent to stdout. rev reverse lines of a file or files. This use of tee allows testing if a program correctly handles its input without using files that hold the data.

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