Commands by w00binda (9)

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Show a prettified list of nearby wireless APs

Download full FLAC albums from archive.org
The only zipped version of an album available for download is the lossy mp3 version. To download lossless files, because of their size, you must download them individually. This command scrapes the page for all the FLAC (or also SHN) files.

Show your current network interface in use

wget with resume
I couldn't find this on the site and it's a useful switch. Great for large files.

show ALL iptable rules
show your current iptable rules from every available iptable table

Compress logs older than 7 days

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Realtime apache hits per second
Change the cut range for hits per 10 sec, minute and so on... Grep can be used to filter on url or source IP.

Download and install the newest dropbox beta

Find default gateway


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