Commands by ktoso (3)

  • Get your external IP address

    Yeah I know it's been up here a million times, but this service is a really clean and nice one. Nothing but your IP address on it. Actually I was to write something like this, and noticed this on appspot... ;) Show Sample Output


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    curl ip.appspot.com
    ktoso · 2009-10-31 21:11:10 12
  • Track X Window events in chosen window

    After executing this, click on a window you want to track X Window events in. Explaination: "xev will track events in the window with the following -id, which we get by greping window information obtained by xwininfo" Show Sample Output


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    xev -id `xwininfo | grep 'Window id' | awk '{print $4}'`
    ktoso · 2009-09-19 22:47:16 6
  • Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

    Can be used to discover what programms create internet traffic. Skip the part after awk to get more details. Has anyone an idea why the uniq doesn't work propperly here (see sample output)? Show Sample Output


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    netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | uniq | sort
    ktoso · 2009-09-19 13:54:36 7

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