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show where symlinks are pointing
displays the output of ls -l without the rest of the crud. pretty simple but useful.

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

Find your graphics chipset
Displays only the VGA adapter/chipset being used for the graphics. In this case, it gave me the "M22" and "Mobility Radeon x300" that I needed to research a graphics issue I was having.

Change the homepage of Firefox
Pros: Works in all Windows computers, most updated and compatible command. Cons: 3 liner Replace fcisolutions.com with your site name.

Check a server is up. If it isn't mail me.
This version uses netcat to check a particular service.

Docker.io Stop and Remove all processes
Will stop all running containers, then remove all containers **This isn't for selectively handling containers, it removes everything**

Opens an explorer.exe file browser window for the current working directory or specified dir (Fixed)
This alternative either opens the current working directory by just issuing the open function in the commandline. Or you can specify what directory you would like to open. Example: open /cygdrive/c/Windows Usage: open [path] When no option is specified it will open the current working directory

List processes playing sound
When trying to play a sound you may sometimes get an error saying that your sound card is already used, but not by what process. This will list all processes playing sound, useful to kill processes that you no longer need but that keep using your sound card.

Grep all non-ascii character in file
It will highlight non-ascii character in a file. those character can cause problem for some application parsing ascii file.

Like top but for files
Like top, but for files

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