Commands by egreSS

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bypass any aliases and functions for the command

A simple directive which disables all aliases and functions for the command immediately following it. Shortcut for the bash built-in 'command' - "command linefoo". Think, {sic}... Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
echo 'Hey, it works...' > fooy.txt
alias cat='somebunk -fFnrACesvVwwwwwlRQ +1337 --awesome-mode-engaged=1'
cat fooy.txt 
bash: somebunk: command not found
\cat fooy.txt 
Hey, it works...
```
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\foo

egreSS · 2011-09-23 11:00:35 11
Given process ID print its environment variables

Same as previous but compatible with BSD/IPSO
This is sample output - yours may be different.
1

ps ewwo command PID | tr ' ' '\n' | grep \=

egreSS · 2011-09-15 12:07:46 4
Given process ID print its environment variables

Same as previous but without fugly sed =x
This is sample output - yours may be different.
1

cat /proc/PID/environ | tr '\0' '\n'

egreSS · 2011-09-15 11:23:35 32

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This will tell you which twitter user you are chronologically. For example, a number of 500 means you were the 500th user to create a twitter account.

Convert IP octets to HEX with no dots.

Converts IP octets to hex using printf command. Useful for generating pxeboot aliases in the pxelinux.cfg folder.

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Can also just use the debug mode like this.

get all Google ipv4 subnets for a iptables firewall for example

multiline data block parse and CSV data extraction with perl

extract data in multiline blocks of data with perl pattern matching loop

Convert text to uppercase

Usage: upper [STRING]...

execute a shell with netcat without -e

Shorter version with proper stderr redirection .

Search some text from all files inside a directory

Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

More recent versions of the date command finally have the ability to decode the unix epoch time into a human readable date. This function makes it simple to utilize this feature quickly.

back ssh from firewalled hosts

host B (you) redirects a modem port (62220) to his local ssh. host A is a remote machine (the ones that issues the ssh cmd). once connected port 5497 is in listening mode on host B. host B just do a ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 5497 -l user and reaches the remote host'ssh. This can be used also for vnc and so on.

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