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Commands tagged status

Terminal - Commands tagged status - 10 results

stat /etc/my.cnf

2012-06-26 19:37:17

User: ankush108

Functions: stat

Tags: status statistics details

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Status of a file/directory

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watch -n 1 "awk 'NR==3 {print \"Signal strength = \" \$3 \"00 %\"}''' /proc/net/wireless"

2012-06-07 11:00:56

User: jlaunay

Functions: watch

Tags: status cat watch wireless signals wifi

-2

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Displaying wireless signal on screen in realtime.

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watch -n 1 cat /proc/net/wireless

2012-06-07 10:38:21

User: cantormath

Functions: cat watch

Tags: status cat watch wireless signals wifi

-3

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Displaying wireless signal on screen in realtime.

Values will depend on the driver and the hardware specifics, so you need to refer to your driver documentation for proper interpretation of those values.

netstat -anpe

2011-12-06 18:27:09

User: anarcat

Functions: netstat

Tags: Network status diagnostic

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Lists all listening ports together with the PID of the associated process

Lists all opened sockets (not only listeners), no DNS resolution (so it's fast), the process id and the user holding the socket.

Previous samples were limiting to TCP too, this also lists UDP listeners.

lxc-ls | sort -u | xargs -i sudo lxc-info -n {}

2011-10-28 11:10:02

User: Rhonda

Functions: sort sudo xargs

Tags: status lxc

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Get status of LXC

This short snippet outputs the state of all containers available on your system. It is quite helpful to see which ones are running and which are stopped. Please notice that the "sort -u" is needed, otherwise running containers will be reported twice (see output of "lxc-ls" on its own for why)

apachectl fullstatus

2011-05-17 13:42:31

User: Ovidiu

Tags: status statistics apache2

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check apache2 status with a lot of details

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for file in `cat urls.txt`; do echo -n "$file " >> log.txt; curl --head $file >> log.txt ; done

2010-10-19 02:54:13

User: Glutnix

Functions: echo file

Tags: status log curl HEAD http files list download http_code url

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Get all the HTTP HEAD responses from a list of urls in a file

urls.txt should have a fully qualified url on each line

prefix with

rm log.txt;

to clear the log

change curl command to

curl --head $file | head -1 >> log.txt

to just get the http status

git status | perl -F'\s' -nale 'BEGIN { $a = 0 }; $a = 1 if $_ =~ /changed but not updated/i; print $F[-1] if ( $a && -f $F[-1] )'

2010-10-15 07:58:14

User: coffeeaddict_nl

Functions: perl

Tags: status git perl

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Show the changed files in your GIT repo

Parse the output of git status.

Once the line '# Changed but not updated:' has passed print every last part of the line if it exists on disk.

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curl -d api_key="$api_key" -d user_app_key="$user_app_key -d body="$body" -d post_method="default" http://api.ping.fm/v1/user.post

2009-09-04 23:20:33

User: matthewbauer

Tags: status ping.fm update

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Update Ping.fm status

Updates your Ping.fm status and websites supported by ping.fm (like twitter, facebook, and google talk).

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watch 'cat /proc/loadavg'

2009-09-03 20:10:46

User: 0disse0

Functions: watch

Tags: status watch

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Watching Command

If you need to keep an eye on a command whose output is changing, use the watch command. For example, to keep an eye on your load average

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