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Commands by peshay

Terminal - Commands by peshay - 11 results

export PS1="[\u@`curl icanhazip.com` \W]$ "

2011-11-07 14:48:16

User: peshay

Functions: export

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Show internet IP Address in prompt --> PS1 var

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ssh root@host1 "cd /somedir/tocopy/ && tar -cf - ." | ssh root@host2 "cd /samedir/tocopyto/ && tar -xf -"

2010-04-16 06:48:47

User: peshay

Functions: ssh

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copy from host1 to host2, through your host

Good if only you have access to host1 and host2, but they have no access to your host (so ncat won't work) and they have no direct access to each other.

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expdp user/password FLASHBACK_SCN=$(echo -e "select current_scn from v\$database;" | sqlplus / as sysdba 2>/dev/null| grep [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*)

2009-10-01 08:55:20

User: peshay

Functions: as echo grep

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Consistent Oracle Datapump Export

Creates a consistent datapumpt export on an Oracle database with the current sequence number, while the system is running and changes happens on the database.

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ls -lct /etc/ | tail -1 | awk '{print $6, $7, $8}'

2009-09-04 16:52:50

User: peshay

Functions: awk ls tail

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When was your OS installed?

shows also time if its the same year or shows year if installed before actual year and also works if /etc is a link (mac os)

rsync -az /home/user/test user@sshServer:/tmp/

2009-08-25 10:45:15

User: peshay

Functions: rsync

Tags: ssh file move

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move a lot of files over ssh

copy files to a ssh server with gzip compression

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mirror=ftp://somemirror.com/with/alot/versions/but/no/latest/link; latest=$(curl -l $mirror/ 2>/dev/null | grep util | tail -1); wget $mirror/$latest

2009-08-24 15:58:31

User: peshay

Functions: grep tail wget

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get the latest version

to download latest version of "util", maybe insert a sort if they wont be shown in right order.

curl lists all files on mirror, grep your util, tail -1 will gets the one lists on the bottom and get it with wget

find /backup/directory -name "FILENAME_*" -mtime +15 -exec rm -vf {};

2009-08-24 07:56:14

User: peshay

Functions: find rm

Tags: find macosx unix remove

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Verbosely delete files matching specific name pattern, older than 15 days.

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watch() { while test :; do clear; date=$(date); echo -e "Every "$1"s: $2 \t\t\t\t $date"; $2; sleep $1; done }

2009-08-19 15:29:00

User: peshay

Functions: echo sleep test watch

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for all who don't have the watch command

#Usage: watch timeinsecond "command"

host -t mx foo.org

2009-08-14 09:55:19

User: peshay

Functions: host

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Get MX records for a domain

command is shorter, output unnecessary longer

egrep "^lease" /var/lib/dhcp/db/dhcpd.leases |awk '{ print $2 }'

2009-08-14 07:31:00

User: peshay

Functions: awk egrep

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get IPs with a DHCP lease

You can use that to create a excludefile for nmap, to find hosts, with no DHCP lease in your DHCP range.

find . -name "*.[ch]" -exec grep "TODO" {} +

2009-08-13 06:17:22

User: peshay

Functions: find grep

Tags: grep

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grep certain file types recursively

-exec works better and faster then using a pipe

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