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add a ip address to a network device
Allows to add more than one ip address to one network device.

Test load balancers
With the "--resolve" switch, you can avoid doing DNS lookups or edit the /etc/hosts file, by providing the IP address for a domain directly. Useful if you have many servers with different IP addresses behind a load balancer. Of course, you would loop it: $ for IP in 10.11.0.{1..10}; do curl --resolve subdomain.example.com:80:$IP subdomain.example.com -I -s; done

Shows space used by each directory of the root filesystem excluding mountpoints/external filesystems (and sort the output)
Useful to see at glance which directory under the root file is using most space

File rotation without rename command
Rotates log files with "gz"-extension in a directory for 7 days and enumerates the number in file name. i.e.: logfile.1.gz > logfile.2.gz I needed this line due to the limitations on AIX Unix systems which do not ship with the rename command.

Mount a .iso file in UNIX/Linux
"-o loop" lets you use a file as a block device

Compare a remote file with a local file

Copy/move a bunch of files to dot files and back

dstat - a mix of vmstat, iostat, netstat, ps, sar...
This is a very powerful command line tool to gather statistics for a Linux system. http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/

Watch active calls on an Asterisk PBX

check open ports without netstat or lsof


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