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Commands tagged Network

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curl icanhazip.com
2010-06-14 18:47:11
User: pykler
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP address

With a lolcat favicon if you access it from your browser

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for i in 192.168.1.{1..254} ; do if ping -c1 -w1 $i &>/dev/null; then echo $i alive; fi; done
2010-06-12 18:38:36
User: wiburg
Functions: echo ping
Tags: Network ping loop ip address hosts
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List alive hosts in specific subnet
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nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24
2010-06-05 14:48:37
User: sdadh01
Tags: Network ping loop ip address hosts
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List alive hosts in specific subnet

Works on any machine with nmap installed. Previous version does not work on machines without "seq".

Also works on subnets of any size.

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for ip in `seq 1 255`; do ping -c 1 192.168.1.$ip ; done | grep ttl
2010-06-05 13:15:06
User: takeshin
Functions: grep ping
Tags: Network ping loop ip address hosts
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List alive hosts in specific subnet
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/sbin/ifconfig|grep -B 1 inet |head -1 | awk '{print $5}'
2010-04-22 06:35:29
User: octopus
Functions: awk grep head
Tags: Network Linux UNIX
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Find MAC address of Active Eth connection
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curl ifconfig.me/all/json
2010-04-21 20:47:17
User: truemilk
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP address

Request all information about my IP address in json format

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curl ifconfig.me/all/xml
2010-04-21 20:45:17
User: truemilk
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP address

Request all information about my IP address in xml format

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curl ifconfig.me
2010-04-21 13:10:33
User: aajjk
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP address

curl ifconfig.me/ip -> IP Adress

curl ifconfig.me/host -> Remote Host

curl ifconfig.me/ua ->User Agent

curl ifconfig.me/port -> Port

thonks to http://ifconfig.me/

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trickle -d 60 wget http://very.big/file
2010-03-29 06:55:30
User: point_to_null
Functions: wget
Tags: Network unix download speed
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Limit bandwidth usage by any program

Trickle is a voluntary, cooperative bandwidth shaper. it works entirely in userland and is very easy to use.

The most simple application is to limit the bandwidth usage of programs.

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nm-tool 2>/dev/null|sed -n '/Type:[ ]*802.11 WiFi/,/IPv4 Settings/{ /State:[ ]*connected/,/IPv4 Settings/{ s/^[ ]*//;/^\*.*Infra/ { s/^*//;s/:.*//;p }}}'
2010-02-02 12:04:12
User: chmouel
Functions: nm sed
Tags: Network wireless network manager
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Get current connected wireless network with nm-tools

Gets only when the state is connected.

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ip addr add 192.168.10.1/24 dev eth0
2010-01-12 13:07:36
User: wincus
Tags: Network network card ip address
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add a ip address to a network device

Allows to add more than one ip address to one network device.

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sudo nmap -F -O 192.168.1.1-255 | grep "Running: " > /tmp/os; echo "$(cat /tmp/os | grep Linux | wc -l) Linux device(s)"; echo "$(cat /tmp/os | grep Windows | wc -l) Window(s) devices"
2010-01-10 03:09:56
User: matthewbauer
Functions: echo grep sudo
Tags: Network statistics Linux windows nmap
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How many Linux and Windows devices are on your network?

Shows how many Windows and Linux devices are on your network.

May add support for others, but that's all that are on my network right now.

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ipcalc $(ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr:" | cut -d':' -f2,4 | sed 's/.+Bcast:/\//g') | awk '/Network/ { print $2 } '
2009-12-05 15:00:32
User: solarislackware
Functions: awk cut grep ifconfig sed
Tags: Network
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Show Network IP and Subnet

same thing as the other

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IP=`ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr:" | ips |cut -d ":" -f 2 | cut -d " " -f 1`;SUBNET=`ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr:" | ips |cut -d ":" -f 3 | cut -d " " -f 1`;RANGE=`ipcalc $IP/$SUBNET | grep "Network:" | cut -d ' ' -f 4`;echo $RANGE
2009-12-05 01:19:31
User: guelfoweb
Functions: cut grep
Tags: Network
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Show Network IP and Subnet

Require ips and ipcalc

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wget -qO - http://www.sputnick-area.net/ip;echo
2009-11-20 23:10:31
User: cfajohnson
Functions: wget
Tags: Network IP external
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Get your external IP address
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wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'
2009-11-06 10:18:26
User: sanjaygoel
Functions: sed wget
Tags: Network IP external
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Get your external IP address
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lynx --dump http://ip.boa.nu|sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/*[[:space:]]$//'|grep -v ^$
2009-11-04 22:23:45
User: xeor
Functions: grep sed
Tags: Network IP external
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Get your external IP address

For those of us that still uses lynx :)

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wget -O - -q ip.boa.nu
2009-11-04 22:22:04
User: xeor
Functions: wget
Tags: Network IP external
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Get your external IP address

Using our beloved wget

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curl whatismyip.org
2009-11-04 21:40:31
User: m8t
Tags: Network IP external
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Get your external IP address
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eval $(curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/external/ZXh0ZXJuYWw=/sort-by-votes/plaintext|sed -n '/^# Get your external IP address$/{n;p;q}')
2009-11-04 16:58:31
User: jgc
Functions: eval sed
Tags: Network IP external
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Get your external IP address with the best commandlinefu.com command

This command uses the top voted "Get your external IP" command from commandlinefu.com to get your external IP address.

Use this and you will always be using the communities favourite command.

This is a tongue-in-cheek entry and not recommended for actual usage.

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IFS=$'\n';cl=($(curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/external/ZXh0ZXJuYWw=/sort-by-votes/plaintext|sed -n '/^# Get your external IP address$/{n;p}'));c=${cl[$(( $RANDOM % ${#cl[@]} ))]};eval $c;echo "Command used: $c"
2009-11-04 16:55:44
User: jgc
Functions: sed
Tags: Network IP external
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Get your external IP address with a random commandlinefu.com command

There's been so many ways submitted to get your external IP address that I decided we all need a command that will just go pick a random one from the list and run it. This gets a list of "Get your external IP" commands from commanlinefu.com and selects a random one to run. It will run the command and print out which command it used.

This is not a serious entry, but it was a learning exercise for me writing it. My personal favourite is "curl icanhazip.com". I really don't think we need any other ways to do this, but if more come you can make use of them with this command ;o).

Here's a more useful command that always gets the top voted "External IP" command, but it's not so much fun:

eval $(curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/external/ZXh0ZXJuYWw=/sort-by-votes/plaintext|sed -n '/^# Get your external IP address$/{n;p;q}')
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exec 3<>/dev/tcp/whatismyip.com/80; echo -e "GET /automation/n09230945.asp HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: whatismyip.com\r\n" >&3; a=( $(cat <&3) ); echo ${a[${#a[*]}-1]};
2009-11-03 21:57:00
User: yaccovs
Functions: cat echo exec
Tags: Network IP external
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Get your external IP address

bash neto..

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echo -e "GET /automation/n09230945.asp HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: whatismyip.com\r\n" | nc whatismyip.com 80 | tail -n1
2009-11-03 15:18:20
User: Marko
Functions: echo tail
Tags: Network IP external
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Get your external IP address
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curl ip.appspot.com
2009-10-31 21:11:10
User: ktoso
Tags: Network sed curl ip address
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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... ;)

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apropos network |more
2009-09-25 15:05:33
User: shaiss
Functions: apropos
Tags: Network , tools , apropos
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List Network Tools in Linux

Get all the networking related commands for your distro

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