If they just want to count unique installs, then the comment on that thread I believe partially works: set -x stat / | grep -i "birth:" | awk '{print $

If they just want to count unique installs, then the comment on that thread I believe partially works: set -x stat / | grep -i "birth:" | awk '{print $2}' Then use the output piped to md5sum to make a user-id. And then finally use an opt-in on demand ephemeral instantiation of Tor to submit the results so they can not get the real IP if they wanted to. In my opinion all telemetry should be opt-in and provide a text/plain preview of what is going to be submitted ahead of time. This gives the system owner a chance to back out of posting the telemetry should they see something sensitive. set -x to show an audit trail for what commands were executed in plain text.