Commands by frozenfire

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Copy structure

Copies a dir structure without the files in it. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
nathan@lion:~$ structcp hello-python hello-plasma
mkdir: created directory `hello-plasma'
mkdir: created directory `/home/nathan/hello-plasma/contents'
mkdir: created directory `/home/nathan/hello-plasma/contents/code'
```
3

structcp(){ ( mkdir -pv $2;f="$(realpath "$1")";t="$(realpath "$2")";cd "$f";find * -type d -exec mkdir -pv $t/{} \;);}

frozenfire · 2009-08-23 11:26:38 19
Get internal and external IP addresses

Gets the internal and external IP addresses of all your interfaces, or the ones given as arguments Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
nathan@lion:~$ ips
lo   127.0.0.1      127.0.0.1
eth0 192.168.1.2    80.106.232.129
nathan@lion:~$ ips eth0
eth0 192.168.1.2    80.106.232.129
```
-3

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;}

frozenfire · 2009-08-07 10:04:46 3
Generate random password

Generates password consisting of alphanumeric characters, defaults to 16 characters unless argument given. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
frozenfire@sine:~$ randpw 10
9qDVnEYNGx
frozenfire@sine:~$ randpw
6PkWNDsFVTiuKmpX
```
3

randpw(){ < /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c${1:-16};echo;}

frozenfire · 2009-08-07 07:30:57 7
Copy with progress
This is sample output - yours may be different.
-3

copy(){ cp -v "$1" "$2"&watch -n 1 'du -h "$1" "$2";printf "%s%%\n" $(echo `du -h "$2"|cut -dG -f1`/0.`du -h "$1"|cut -dG -f1`|bc)';}

frozenfire · 2009-08-03 14:32:32 11

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