Commands by SuperJediWombat

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Get your external IP address without curl

Curl is not installed by default on many common distros anymore. wget always is :) wget -qO- ifconfig.me/ip
This is sample output - yours may be different.
12

wget -qO- icanhazip.com

SuperJediWombat · 2010-06-24 03:49:14 10
grep for tabs without using Ctrl-V trick

-P tells grep to use perl regex matches (only works on the GNU grep as far as I know.)
This is sample output - yours may be different.
3

grep -P '\t' filename

SuperJediWombat · 2010-05-02 02:24:14 4
kill process by name

Or even easier, if it's available: killall firefox I have no idea why you would want to rely on two unusual dependencies to do something that can be done a hundred ways from coreutils...
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14

pkill -x firefox

SuperJediWombat · 2010-05-02 02:17:21 11
Remove comments and empty lines from a file

Removes all empty lines: ^$ and all lines starting with hash: ^# Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
/dev/sdd {
spindown_time = 241
}
/dev/sdf {
spindown_time = 241
}
```
0

grep -v '^#\|^$' /etc/hdparm.conf

SuperJediWombat · 2010-04-18 08:01:07 5
Ping scanning without nmap

Usefull for when you don't have nmap and need to find a missing host. Pings all addresses from 10.1.1.1 to 10.1.1.254, modify for your subnet. Timeout set to 1 sec for speed, if running over a slow connection you should raise that to avoid missing replies. This will clean up the junk, leaving just the IP address: for i in {1..254}; do ping -c 1 -W 1 10.1.1.$i | grep 'from' | cut -d' ' -f 4 | tr -d ':'; done Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.622 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.078 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.50: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.204 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.250: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.344 ms
```
14

for i in {1..254}; do ping -c 1 -W 1 10.1.1.$i | grep 'from'; done

SuperJediWombat · 2010-04-07 16:57:53 8

Print Asterisk phone logs

Prints a log of phonecalls placed from/to an asterisk server, formated into an easily readable table. You can use partial number/queue matches, or use .* to match everything. Show Sample Output

phonelogs() { grep "$1" /var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/Master.csv | cut -d',' -f 2,3,11,12 --output-delimiter=" " | sed 's/"//g' | cut -d' ' -f 1,2,3,4,6 | column -t; }

SuperJediWombat · 2010-03-28 08:30:46 21

show your private/local ip address

Gets the IP addresses of all interfaces except loopback. Cuts out all of the extra text. Shorter than the other options, and much easier to type. 'ifconfig | grep cast' is enough to get the IP address, but it doesn't strip the rest of the junk out. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
10.10.10.2
10.10.20.250
```
0

ifconfig | grep cast | cut -d':' -f2 | cut -d' ' -f1

SuperJediWombat · 2010-03-28 02:15:34 5

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find the path of the java called from the command line

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List contents of jar

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Check (partial) runtime-dependencies of Gentoo ebuilds

The output is only partial because runtime dependencies should count in also commands executed via system() and libraries loaded with dlopen(), but at least it gives an idea of what a package directly links to. Note: this is meaningful *only* if you're using -Wl,--as-needed in your LDFLAGS, otherwise it'll bring you a bunch of false positives.

Multi-line grep

Using perl you can search for patterns spanning several lines, a thing that grep can't do. Append the list of files to above command or pipe a file through it, just as with regular grep. If you add the 's' modifier to the regex, the dot '.' also matches line endings, useful if you don't known how many lines you need are between parts of your pattern. Change '*' to '*?' to make it greedy, that is match only as few characters as possible. See also http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1764/display-a-block-of-text-with-awk to do a similar thing with awk. Edit: The undef has to be put in a begin-block, or a match in the first line would not be found.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

quickly change all .html extensions on files in folder to .htm

Create passwords and store safely with gpg

Adjust the $ head -c part for password length. I use filenames like "hans@commandlinefu.com.gpg" and a vim which automatically decrypts files with .gpg suffixes.

Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one

Get the PID of a process by name

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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

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