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Commands tagged check

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lsof -nPi tcp:80

2012-01-09 09:35:17

User: arighi

Tags: check port server port 80 listen

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Show what PID is listening on port 80 on Linux

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fuser -v 80/tcp

2011-12-16 14:51:34

User: pykler

Functions: fuser

Tags: check port server port 80 listen

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Show what PID is listening on port 80 on Linux

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IFS=$'\n' && for f in `find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;`; do echo $f | sed -r 's/^[^ ]+/Checking:/'; echo $f | cut -f1 -d' ' | netcat hash.cymru.com 43 ; done

2011-10-15 03:38:47

User: Neo23x0

Functions: cut echo md5sum sed

Tags: netcat virus check md5 malware online

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Find Malware in the current and sub directories by MD5 hashes

Command makes use of the Malware Hash Registry (http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/MHR/).

It parses the current directory and subdirectories and calculates the md5 hash of the files, then prints the name and sends the hash to the MHR for a lookup in their database.

The 3rd value in the result is the detection percentage across a mix of AV packages.

find . -name \*.php -exec php -l "{}" \;

2011-08-02 12:12:32

User: Koobiac

Functions: find

Tags: exec PHP check name syntax

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Check syntax for all PHP files in the current directory and all subdirectories

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for i in $(find . -name *md5checksum_file* | sed 's/$\.\/.*$md5checksum_file.txt/\1/'); do cd "$i"; md5sum -c "md5checksum_file.txt"; cd -; done | tee ~/checksum_results.txt | grep -v "<current directory>"

2011-05-17 01:08:44

User: gocoogs

Functions: cd find grep md5sum sed tee

Tags: md5sum check recursive checksum

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use md5sum -c recursively through subdirectory tree when every directory has its own checksum file

extracts path to each md5 checksum file, then, for each path, cd to it, check the md5sum, then cd - to toggle back to the starting directory. greps at the end to remove cd chattering on about the current directory.

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( di $TOFSCK -h ; /bin/umount $TOFSCK ; time /sbin/e2fsck -y -f -v $FSCKDEV ; /bin/mount $TOFSCK ) |& /bin/mail $MAILTO -s "$MAILSUB"

2010-10-24 00:35:23

User: px

Functions: time

Tags: Filesystem mount mount point size file cronjob automation check automatically crontab

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Easy to extend one-liner for cron scripts that automate filesystem checking

This one-liner is for cron jobs that need to provide some basic information about a filesystem and the time it takes to complete the operation. You can swap out the di command for df or du if that's your thing. The |& redirections the stderr and stdout to the mail command.

How to configure the variables.

TOFSCK=/path/to/mount

FSCKDEV=/dev/path/device

FSCKDEV=`grep $TOFSCK /proc/mounts | cut -f1 -d" "`

MAILSUB="weekly file system check $TOFSCK "

HTMLTEXT=$( curl -s http://www.page.de/test.html > /tmp/new.html ; diff /tmp/new.html /tmp/old.html ); if [ "x$HTMLTEXT" != x ] ; then echo $HTMLTEXT | mail -s "Page has changed." mail@mail.de ; fi ; mv /tmp/new.html /tmp/old.html

2010-07-04 21:45:37

User: Emzy

Functions: diff echo mail mv

Tags: website email html change check web-page

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Check if a web page has changed last time checked.

Checks if a web page has changed. Put it into cron to check periodically.

Change http://www.page.de/test.html and mail@mail.de for your needs.

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perl -e '$p=qr!(?:0|1\d{0,2}|2(?:[0-4]\d?|5[0-5]?|[6-9])?|[3-9]\d?)!;print((shift=~m/^$p\.$p\.$p\.$p$/)?1:0);' 123.123.123.123

2009-07-12 00:24:29

User: speaker

Functions: perl

Tags: perl IP regex test check

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Test if the given argument is a valid ip address.

This command will output 1 if the given argument is a valid ip address and 0 if it is not.