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Commands by liupeng

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wget -qO - http://myip.dk/ | egrep -m1 -o '[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}'
2009-02-06 03:25:08
User: liupeng
Functions: egrep wget
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Get My Public IP Address
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curl -s http://whatismyip.org/
2009-02-06 03:24:23
User: liupeng
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Get My Public IP Address
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curl -s http://myip.dk/ | egrep -m1 -o '[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}'
2009-02-06 03:23:39
User: liupeng
Functions: egrep
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Get My Public IP Address
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seq -f"ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.1/7.1.%03g" 176 240 | xargs -I {} wget -c {};
2009-02-06 03:19:06
User: liupeng
Functions: seq wget xargs
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download a sequence of vim patch

Seq allows you to define printf like formating by specified with -f, %03g is actually tells seq I got three digits, fill the blank digits with 0, and the range is from 176 to 240.

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kill -HUP `ps -A -ostat,ppid,pid,cmd | grep -e '^[Zz]' | awk '{print $2}'`
2009-02-06 02:42:14
User: liupeng
Functions: awk grep kill
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find and kill a zombie process

You cannot kill zombies, as they are already dead. But if you have too many zombies then kill parent process or restart service.

You can kill zombie process using PID obtained from the above command. For example kill zombie proces having PID 4104:

# kill -9 4104

Please note that kill -9 does not guarantee to kill a zombie process.

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ps aux | awk '{ print $8 " " $2 " " $11}' | grep -w Z
2009-02-06 02:38:20
User: liupeng
Functions: awk grep ps
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find out zombie process
8~osstat, $2~pid, $11~cmd
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gpg --keyserver pgp.surfnet.nl --recv-key 19886493
2009-02-06 02:24:28
User: liupeng
Functions: gpg
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Getting GnuPG Public Keys From KeyServer

get my GPG-key from pgp.surfnet.nl, key id is 19886493.

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