Commands by BorneBjoern

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Filter IP's in apache access logs based on use

avoiding UUOC! cut can handle files as well. No neet for a cat.
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0

cut -d ' ' -f 1 /var/log/apache2/access_logs | uniq -c | sort -n

BorneBjoern · 2013-09-17 20:05:03 0
Get the IP address

gives u each configured IP in a seperate line. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
127.0.0.1/8
10.28.66.71/24
```
3

ip -f inet a | awk '/inet / { print $2 }'

BorneBjoern · 2012-07-18 15:13:10 0
find the device when you only know the mount point

less ressources (processes) needed Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
/dev/sdc1
```
-1

grep -w /media/KINGSTON /proc/mounts | cut -d " " -f

BorneBjoern · 2011-01-25 23:45:35 0
Fetch the Gateway Ip Address

same thing without loop ;)
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

/sbin/route -n | grep "^0\.0\.0\.0" | awk '{ print $2 }'

BorneBjoern · 2010-03-07 13:59:57 1

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simple backup with rsync

With this cron, rsync begins to sinchronize the contents of the local directory on /[VIPdirectory] with the directory /backup/[VIPdirectory] on the remote server X.X.X.X. Previously we need working on public/private-keys ssh to guarantee the acces to the remote server on X.X.X.X

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Get a funny one-liner from www.onelinerz.net

Put this command in .bashrc and every time you open a new terminal a random quote will be downloaded and printed from onelinerz.net. By altering the URL in the w3m statement you can change the output: 1 to 10 lines - http://www.onelinerz.net/random-one-liners/(number)/ 20 newest lines - http://www.onelinerz.net/latest-one-liners/ Top 10 lines - http://www.onelinerz.net/top-100-funny-one-liners/ Top 10 lines are updated daily.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Find the package that installed a command

Set gnome wallpaper to a random jpg from the specified directory

Every time this is run it will change your background picture. For added fun Add some DBUS magic: . $HOME/.dbus/session-bus/`cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id`-0 export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and a crontab entry: */5 * * * * above_command_in_script.sh >/dev/null 2>/dev/null now wallpaper changes every 5 mins

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

List of macros defined by gcc

Lists all macros and their values defined by gcc.

Use tee to process a pipe with two or more processes

Tee can be used to split a pipe into multiple streams for one or more process to work it. You can add more " >()" for even more fun.

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