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hi! link Comment Ignore
2012-02-27 07:15:58
User: kev
Functions: link
Tags: vim
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Ignore all Comment in Vim
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ip link | awk '/link/ {print $2}'
2011-03-25 06:26:08
User: fossilet
Functions: awk link
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List your MACs address

The output of ifconfig is localized, using it will fail in non-English environment. "ip" command in iproute2 provides a consistent output and thus is more robust

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printf $(( echo "obase=16;$(echo $$$(date +%s%N))"|bc; ip link show|sed -n '/eth/ {N; p}'|grep -o -E '([[:xdigit:]]{1,2}:){5}[[:xdigit:]]{1,2}'|head -c 17 )|tr -d [:space:][:punct:] |sed 's/[[:xdigit:]]\{2\}/\\x&/g')|sha1sum|head -c 32; echo
2010-07-14 14:04:53
User: camocrazed
Functions: echo grep head link printf sed tr
Tags: uuid
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Generate an over-the-top UUID

first off, if you just want a random UUID, here's the actual command to use:

uuidgen

Your chances of finding a duplicate after running this nonstop for a year are about the same as being hit by a meteorite before finishing this sentence

The reason for the command I have is that it's more provably unique than the one that uuidgen creates. uuidgen creates a random one by default, or an unencrypted one based on time and network address if you give it the -t option.

Mine uses the mac address of the ethernet interface, the process id of the caller, and the system time down to nanosecond resolution, which is provably unique over all computers past, present, and future, subject to collisions in the cryptographic hash used, and the uniqueness of your mac address.

Warning: feel free to experiment, but be warned that the stdin of the hash is binary data at that point, which may mess up your terminal if you don't pipe it into something. If it does mess up though, just type

reset
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ip link show
2010-03-01 20:10:27
User: d34dh0r53
Functions: link
Tags: ifconfig grep
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Get all mac address

I prefer the ip command to ifconfig as ifconfig is supposedly going to be deprecated. Certain IP address aliases can only be seen with the ip command (such as the ones applied by RHCS).

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ip link show eth0 | grep "link/ether" | awk '{print $2}'
2009-11-05 17:06:15
User: maxmanders
Functions: awk grep link
Tags: mac
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Get ethX mac addresses

...or for a particular interface...

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ip link | grep 'link/ether' | awk '{print $2}'
2009-11-04 19:41:26
User: markdrago
Functions: awk grep link
Tags: mac
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Get ethX mac addresses

I much prefer using /sbin/ip over /sbin/ifconfig for most everything. I find the interface and output to be much more consistent and it has many abilities that ifconfig, route, etc. do not. To get the mac address for only one interface, add 'show dev [interface]' to the 'ip link' part of the command: ip link show dev eth0 | grep 'link/ether' | awk '{print $2}' . Also, both this command and the ifconfig one do not require root access to run, so the sudo is not necessary.

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ips(){ for if in ${1:-$(ip link list|grep '^.: '|cut -d\ -f2|cut -d: -f1)};do cur=$(ifconfig $if|grep "inet addr"|sed 's/.*inet addr:\([0-9\.]*\).*/\1/g');printf '%-5s%-15s%-15s\n' $if $cur $(nc -s $cur sine.cluenet.org 128 2>/dev/null||echo $cur);done;}
2009-08-07 10:04:46
User: frozenfire
Functions: cut echo grep ifconfig link sed
Tags: Linux IP ip address
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Get internal and external IP addresses

Gets the internal and external IP addresses of all your interfaces, or the ones given as arguments

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wget -c -v -S -T 100 --tries=0 `curl -s http://ms1.espectador.com/ podcast/espectador/la_venganza_sera_terrible.xml | grep -v xml | grep link | sed 's/]*>//g'`
2009-03-04 13:12:28
User: fmdlc
Functions: grep link sed wget
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Download a complete podcast

This download a complete audio podcast

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