Commands by angrox

Commands by angrox (3)

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Scan for new SCSI devices

Issues a scan command on the given scsi host adapter (ex. a fibre channel adapter, in the example above on host0). Output can be watched in the messages log or in "dmesg"
This is sample output - yours may be different.
3

echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan

angrox · 2009-03-18 15:26:42 9
Lists architecture of installed RPMs

Lists all installed RPM packages with name and architecture, which is useful to check for compability packages (+ required i386 packages) on a 64bit system. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
sgml-skel noarch
update-alternatives noarch
desktop-file-utils x86_64
db-devel x86_64
```
2

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME} %{ARCH}\n"

angrox · 2009-03-18 15:19:21 13
Resets terminal in its original state

Resets a scrambled terminal into its orignal state.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

^[c (ctrl-v esc-c)

angrox · 2009-03-18 15:15:24 13

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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"

Find installed network devices

Find installed network devices.

Convert from a decimal number to a binary number

find files beginning with filename* that do not include "string"

Inverse grep, to find files without the string

Advanced python tracing

Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Show the 1000*1000 and 1024*1024 size of HDs on system

Calculates the date 2 weeks ago from Saturday the specified format.

Good for automating reports that need to run from between two dates.

Echo the contents of a Url

Directly send the content of a url to standard out. This command is most convenient for sending the output of a download directly to another command.

Chmod all directories (excluding files)

+ at the end means that many filenames will be passed to every chmod call, thus making it faster. And find own {} makes sure that it will work with spaces and other characters in filenames.

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