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Commands using get

Terminal - Commands using get - 5 results

ip route get 8.8.8.8 2>/dev/null|grep -Eo 'src [0-9.]+'|grep -Eo '[0-9.]+'

2012-10-14 02:06:13

User: intangible

Functions: get grep route

Tags: IP ip address wireless VPN interface wifi route

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Grab IP address on machine with multiple interfaces

Instead of hard-coding in a check to scrape info from ifconfig based on a specific interface, do it in a more portable way.

This works really well if you switch between wired, wireless, bluetooth or even VPN connections. You can get your current IP in a script (since it'll be something like tun0 instead of eth0 or wlan1).

This uses a well known public ip address 8.8.8.8, but it doesn't actually connect to it, it just shows you the route it would take.

ip route get dest_ip

2012-08-08 17:19:16

User: miguelcnf

Functions: get route

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Print a single route to a destination and its contents exactly as the kernel sees it

Useful to determine the source_ip of outgoing packages to a certain destination

ssh vm-user@`VBoxManage guestproperty get "vm-name" "/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/IP" | awk '{ print $2 }'`

2011-05-04 18:01:36

User: lucasrangit

Functions: awk get ssh

Tags: ssh VBoxHeadless VBoxManage

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Connect via SSH to VirtualBox guest VM without knowing IP address

Booting the VM headless via VBoxHeadless requires knowledge of the VM's network in order to connect. Using VBoxManage in this way and you can SSH to the VM without first looking up the current IP, which changes depending on how you have your VM configured.

get-ipsw(){ curl -s -L http://phobos.apple.com/version | sed -rn "s|[\t ]*<string>(http://appldnld\.apple\.com\.edgesuite\.net/content\.info\.apple\.com/iPhone[0-9]?/[^/]*/$1$2_$3_[A-Z0-9a-z]*_Restore\.ipsw)</string>|\1|p" | uniq; }

2010-06-22 02:34:15

User: matthewbauer

Functions: get sed

Tags: ipod iphone ios ipsw

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Get iPhone OS firmware URL (.ipsw)

Usage:

get-ipsw device-name generation-string firmware-version

For example:

get-ipsw iPod 2,1 4.0

Different generation strings:

iPhone 3G: iPhone 1,2

iPhone 3GS: iPhone 2,1

iPod touch 2G: iPod 2,1

iPod touch 3G: iPod 3,1

This can be used with idevicerestore (I haven't tried it though).

http://github.com/posixninja/idevicerestore

Based on:

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/21/ios-4-0-firmware-release-expected-momentarily-quick-terminal-ti/

on="off"; off="on"; now=$(amixer get Master | tr -d '[]' | grep "Playback.*%" |head -n1 |awk '{print $7}'); amixer sset Master ${!now}

2009-02-25 09:03:08

User: hans

Functions: amixer get grep tr

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this toggles mute on the Master channel of an alsa soundcard

I've had this as mute.sh in my ~/bin/ for some time.

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