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Commands by mobidyc

Terminal - Commands by mobidyc - 9 results

netstat -in

2010-02-04 15:24:58

User: mobidyc

Functions: netstat

Tags: ifconfig netstat hp-ux

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Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX

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find /dev/vg00 -type b |while read L; do lvextend -m 1 $L /dev/disk/<disk> ; done

2010-02-04 15:18:26

User: mobidyc

Functions: find read

Tags: hp-ux lvm

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Mirror every lvol in vg00 in hp-ux 11.31

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newest () { find ${1:-\.} -type f |xargs ls -lrt ; }

2010-02-04 14:52:17

User: mobidyc

Functions: find ls xargs

Tags: bash find files recursive

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A function to find the newest file in a directory

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echo "$(</etc/issue)"

2009-09-14 09:44:35

User: mobidyc

Functions: echo

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view file content with echo

another replacement for cat.

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echo "foo" > /dev/tcp/192.168.1.2/25

2009-09-12 16:48:05

User: mobidyc

Functions: echo

Tags: Network udp tcp icmp protocol socket

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send echo to socket network

this command will send a message to the socket 25 on host 192.168.1.2 in tcp.

works on udp and icmp

understand only IP address, not hostname.

on the other side (192.168.1.2), you can listen to this socket and test if you receive the message.

easy to diagnose a firewall problem or not.

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find . $ ! -name . -prune $ $ -type f -o -type l $

2009-09-12 15:58:56

User: mobidyc

Functions: find

Tags: Linux solaris find aix hp-ux

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find only current directory (universal)

you must be in the directory to analyse

report all files and links in the currect directory, not recursively.

this find command ahs been tested on hp-ux/linux/aix/solaris.

function nowrap { export COLS=`tput cols` ; cut -c-$COLS ; unset COLS ; }

2009-09-11 15:07:00

User: mobidyc

Functions: cut export unset

Tags: bash ksh

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no more line wrapping in your terminal

works on all unices.

function sepath { echo $PATH |tr ":" "\n" |sort -u |while read L ; do cd "$L" 2>/dev/null && find . $ ! -name . -prune $ $ -type f -o -type l $ 2>/dev/null |sed "s@^\./@@" |egrep -i "${*}" |sed "s@^@$L/@" ; done ; }

2009-09-11 15:03:22

User: mobidyc

Functions: cd echo egrep find read sed sort tr

Tags: bash ksh PATH

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search for a file in PATH

search argument in PATH

accept grep expressions

without args, list all binaries found in PATH

function catv { egrep -v "^$|^#" ${*} ; }

2009-09-11 14:58:47

User: mobidyc

Functions: egrep

Tags: Text Processing conffiles

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Output files without comments or empty lines

better integration.

works on all Unices

works one bash and ksh.