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Show local/public IP adresses with or without interface argument using a shell function for Linux and MacOsX

Like the tiltle said, you can use an argument too ( the interface ) MyIps eth0 will show only the IP of this interface and the public IP ( tested with Linux ) You can add that function in ~/.bashrc, then . ~/.bashrc Now you are ready to call this function in all your terms... Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
local:
10.0.0.1
10.0.0.221
192.168.0.1

public:
212.34.55.218
```
1

MyIps(){ echo -e "local:\n$(ifconfig $1 | grep -oP 'inet (add?r:)?\K(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}')\n\npublic:\n$(curl -s sputnick-area.net/ip)"; }

sputnick · 2009-12-06 22:52:31 6

Show the meta information on a package (dependency , statuts ..) on debian derivative distro

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apt-cache show Your_package

eastwind · 2009-12-06 14:50:34 3

List content of a package (debian derivative distro)

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dpkg -L Your_Package

eastwind · 2009-12-06 14:49:04 3

Finding all numbers that are bigger then 1 in vim

If we have a csv like structure: 10,50,'something' And we wish to find all numbers that are bigger then 1 (or find a number that is bigger then 1 regardless of the structure), including numbers that start with 1 such as 10 and above. Show Sample Output
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```
10
```
0

/^$[2-9]\d*\|1\d+$

ik_5 · 2009-12-06 13:01:48 3
Audible warning when a downloading is finished

This command can be set as an alias in ~/.bashrc For example (in my case) I have : alias watchDl='while [ "$(ls $filePart)" != "" ]; do sleep 5; done; mpg123 /home/.../warning.mp3" ' Then I just need to - initialize filePart (e.g. filePart="*bigFile*rar.part") - launch watchDl
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while [ "$(ls $filePart)" != "" ]; do sleep 5; done; mpg123 /home/.../warning.mp3

mrttlemonde · 2009-12-06 10:55:09 9
Kill multiple Locked connection by a single user in MYSQL DB
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0

for i in `mysqladmin -h x.x.x.x --user=root -pXXXX processlist | grep <<username>>| grep <<Locked>>| awk {'print $2'}` do mysqladmin -h x.x.x.x --user=root -pXXX kill $i; done;

r00t4u · 2009-12-06 05:46:48 3
Killing multiplpe process for one program like apache, wget, postfix etc.
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ps aux| grep -v grep| grep httpd| awk {'print $2'}| xargs kill -9

r00t4u · 2009-12-06 05:39:50 7

Determining the excat memory usages by certain PID

this command gives you the total number of memory usuage and open files by the perticuler PID. Show Sample Output

pmap -d <<pid>>

r00t4u · 2009-12-06 05:34:46 8

Display Dilbert strip of the day

Requires display. Corrected version thanks to sputnick and eightmillion user.
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2

display http://dilbert.com$(curl -s dilbert.com|grep -Po '"\K/dyn/str_strip(/0+){4}/.*strip.[^\.]*\.gif')

wizel · 2009-12-05 19:35:27 13

convert pdf to graphic file format (jpg , png , tiff ... )

need imagemagick package Show Sample Output

convert sample.pdf sample.jpg

eastwind · 2009-12-05 19:27:37 8

mount a cdrom
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mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

eastwind · 2009-12-05 18:56:33 3
Show Network IP and Subnet

same thing as the other
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ipcalc $(ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr:" | cut -d':' -f2,4 | sed 's/.+Bcast:/\//g') | awk '/Network/ { print $2 } '

solarislackware · 2009-12-05 15:00:32 3
Return IP Address

If you are interested in interfaces other than eth0 you will need to change eth0 to your interface name. You could use this mammoth to nab the ip4 addresses of all your interfaces perl -e '@_=`ifconfig -a`; sort(@_); foreach(@_) { /(inet addr\:)(\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+ )/; $_=$2; @uniq=grep($_ ne $prev && (($prev) = $_), @_);} print join "\n",@uniq,"\n"; ' it seems silly to have all this code when the following will work fine ifconfig -a | grep "inet " | awk -F":" ' { print $2 } ' | cut -d " " -f1 Show Sample Output
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```
10.10.10.10
```
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perl -e '$_=`ifconfig eth0`;/\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+ /; print $&,"\n";'

solarislackware · 2009-12-05 14:24:48 33
Return IP Address
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awk '/inet end/ {print $3}' <(ifconfig eth0)

voyeg3r · 2009-12-05 10:45:31 4
Router discovery
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0

awk 'NR==2 {print $1}' /proc/net/arp

voyeg3r · 2009-12-05 10:36:06 3
Show local IP
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ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet:" | cut -d ":" -f2 | cut -d " " -f1

guelfoweb · 2009-12-05 02:59:18 8
Router discovery
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4

sudo arp-scan 192.168.1.0/24 -interface eth0

guelfoweb · 2009-12-05 01:35:50 6
Show Network IP and Subnet

Require ips and ipcalc Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.0.1/24
```
-2

IP=`ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr:" | ips |cut -d ":" -f 2 | cut -d " " -f 1`;SUBNET=`ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr:" | ips |cut -d ":" -f 3 | cut -d " " -f 1`;RANGE=`ipcalc $IP/$SUBNET | grep "Network:" | cut -d ' ' -f 4`;echo $RANGE

guelfoweb · 2009-12-05 01:19:31 3
Capture data in ASCII. 1500 bytes

Sniffing traffic on port 80 only the first 1500 bytes
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tcpdump -ieth0 -n tcp port 80 -A -s1500

guelfoweb · 2009-12-05 00:59:16 3
Return IP Address
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0

ifconfig -a| awk 'BEGIN{FS="[ :]+"} /Bcast/{print $4}'

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-12-05 00:18:24 7
Make ABBA better (requires firefox)

ABBA would be more entertaining if they sang this.
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wget -O - -q http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/abba/takeachanceonme.html | sed -e 's/[cC]hance/dump/g' > ~/tdom.htm && firefox ~/tdom.htm

tighe · 2009-12-04 22:56:00 5

Monitor memory usage

Monitor with watch command and vmstat, memory usage Show Sample Output

watch vmstat -sSM

servermanaged · 2009-12-04 22:35:45 6

Return IP Address

grabs your local IP Address. Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.1.100
```
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ifconfig -a|grep Bcast:|cut -d\: -f2|awk '{print $1}'

metalx1000 · 2009-12-04 21:00:46 5
get daily wizard of id comic

Requires the date command. This also works with some other comics. Here's a bash script that displays daily Garfield, Id, and Andy Capp: http://putnamhill.net/cgi-bin/yahoo-comics.sh?ga,crwiz,crcap
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curl -o id.gif `date +http://d.yimg.com/a/p/uc/%Y%m%d/largeimagecrwiz%y%m%d.gif`

putnamhill · 2009-12-04 20:16:32 3
Find file containing namespace in a directory of jar files.

You could subsitute javax.servlet for any namespace you need. Show Sample Output
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```
javax.jsp_1.1.0.0_2-1.jar
javax.servlet_1.0.0.0_2-5.jar
```
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for f in *.jar; do if jar -tf $f | grep -q javax.servlet; then echo $f; fi; done

wekoch · 2009-12-04 20:11:36 3
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