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Commands by SuperJediWombat

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wget -qO- icanhazip.com
2010-06-24 03:49:14
User: SuperJediWombat
Functions: wget
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP address without curl

Curl is not installed by default on many common distros anymore. wget always is :)

wget -qO- ifconfig.me/ip
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grep -P '\t' filename
2010-05-02 02:24:14
User: SuperJediWombat
Functions: grep
Tags: grep
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grep for tabs without using Ctrl-V trick

-P tells grep to use perl regex matches (only works on the GNU grep as far as I know.)

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pkill -x firefox
2010-05-02 02:17:21
User: SuperJediWombat
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kill process by name

Or even easier, if it's available:

killall firefox

I have no idea why you would want to rely on two unusual dependencies to do something that can be done a hundred ways from coreutils...

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grep -v '^#\|^$' /etc/hdparm.conf
2010-04-18 08:01:07
User: SuperJediWombat
Functions: grep
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Remove comments and empty lines from a file

Removes all empty lines: ^$

and all lines starting with hash: ^#

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for i in {1..254}; do ping -c 1 -W 1 10.1.1.$i | grep 'from'; done
2010-04-07 16:57:53
User: SuperJediWombat
Functions: grep ping
Tags: ping
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Ping scanning without nmap

Usefull for when you don't have nmap and need to find a missing host.

Pings all addresses from 10.1.1.1 to 10.1.1.254, modify for your subnet.

Timeout set to 1 sec for speed, if running over a slow connection you should raise that to avoid missing replies.

This will clean up the junk, leaving just the IP address:

for i in {1..254}; do ping -c 1 -W 1 10.1.1.$i | grep 'from' | cut -d' ' -f 4 | tr -d ':'; done

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phonelogs() { grep "$1" /var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/Master.csv | cut -d',' -f 2,3,11,12 --output-delimiter=" " | sed 's/"//g' | cut -d' ' -f 1,2,3,4,6 | column -t; }
2010-03-28 08:30:46
User: SuperJediWombat
Functions: column cut grep sed
Tags: asterisk
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Print Asterisk phone logs

Prints a log of phonecalls placed from/to an asterisk server, formated into an easily readable table.

You can use partial number/queue matches, or use .* to match everything.

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ifconfig | grep cast | cut -d':' -f2 | cut -d' ' -f1
2010-03-28 02:15:34
User: SuperJediWombat
Functions: cut grep ifconfig
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show your private/local ip address

Gets the IP addresses of all interfaces except loopback. Cuts out all of the extra text.

Shorter than the other options, and much easier to type.

'ifconfig | grep cast' is enough to get the IP address, but it doesn't strip the rest of the junk out.

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