Commands by marssi

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List your MACs address

List all MAC addresses on a Linux box. sort -u is useful when having virtual interfaces.
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sort -u < /sys/class/net/*/address

marssi · 2011-05-18 17:50:44 0
Look for English words in /dev/urandom

Little faster alternative.
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head -100000 /dev/urandom | strings|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'|sort >temp.txt && wget -q http://www.mavi1.org/web_security/wordlists/webster-dictionary.txt -O-|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'|sort >temp2.txt&&comm -12 temp.txt temp2.txt

marssi · 2010-12-26 11:04:42 0
Get your local IP regardless of your network interface

Shows only IP-addresses of ifconfig except 127.0.0.0/8. I fixed the script to work on more systems and configs short info /inet/!d; #grep inet /127.0/d; # grep -v 127.0 /dr:\s/d; # grep -v dr: s/^.*:$.*$B.*$/\1/ # remove everything exept between : and B
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ifconfig|sed '/inet/!d;/127.0/d;/dr:\s/d;s/^.*:$.*$B.*$/\1/'

marssi · 2010-12-01 21:08:29 6
Short Information about loaded kernel modules

Liked command 4077 so I improved it, by doing all text manipulation with sed. "Run this as root, it will be helpful to quickly get information about the loaded kernel modules." THX mohan43u Show Sample Output
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```
$ lsmod | sed -e '1d' -e 's/$\([^ ]*$ \)\{1\}.*/\2/' | xargs modinfo | sed -e '/^dep/s/$/\n/g' -e '/^file/b' -e '/^desc/b' -e '/^dep/b' -e d
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.32-generic/kernel/drivers/net/mii.ko
description:    MII hardware support library
depends:

$
```
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lsmod | sed -e '1d' -e 's/$\([^ ]*$ \)\{1\}.*/\2/' | xargs modinfo | sed -e '/^dep/s/$/\n/g' -e '/^file/b' -e '/^desc/b' -e '/^dep/b' -e d

marssi · 2009-11-17 22:51:08 0
Duplicate a directory tree using tar and pipes

the f is for file and - stdout, This way little shorter. I Like copy-directory function It does the job but looks like SH**, and this doesn't understand folders with whitespaces and can only handle full path, but otherwise fine, function copy-directory () { ; FrDir="$(echo $1 | sed 's:/: :g' | awk '/ / {print $NF}')" ; SiZe="$(du -sb $1 | awk '{print $1}')" ; (cd $1 ; cd .. ; tar c $FrDir/ )|pv -s $SiZe|(cd $2 ; tar x ) ; } Show Sample Output
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```
copy-directory /media/cdrom /mnt/backup/
 104MB 0:00:06 [7.43MB/s] [============>                                                      ]  9% ETA 0:00:58
```
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(cd /source/dir ; tar cv .)|(cd /dest/dir ; tar xv)

marssi · 2009-07-19 10:31:13 6
cat large file to clipboard with speed-o-meter

shortest alternative without the speed-o-meter"xclip large.xml" "xclip -o" to get the clipboard content, alternatively [shift key] + insert or middle button of your mouse.
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pv large.xml | xclip

marssi · 2009-07-08 19:26:12 0
Alternative size (human readable) of directories (biggest last)

Found this one little more for me. This one removes the perl dependency (from command 2535). Source for command : http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/ Show Sample Output
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```
/usr/share/compiz $ duf *
4k	text.xml
8k	video.xml
12k	session.xml
40k	colorfilter.xml
92k	staticswitcher.xml
184k	shift.xml
356k	animation.xml
1M	reflection.png
```
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function duf { du -sk "$@" | sort -n | while read size fname; do for unit in k M G T P E Z Y; do if [ $size -lt 1024 ]; then echo -e "${size}${unit}\t${fname}"; break; fi; size=$((size/1024)); done; done; }

marssi · 2009-07-02 19:56:36 0
Change permissions of every directory in current directory

"find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755" thanks masterofdisaster
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find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

marssi · 2009-06-07 08:17:06 8
Find if the command has an alias

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```
dusn is aliased to `du -ksc * .[A-Za-z]* | sort -n'
```
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type -all command

marssi · 2009-05-27 02:57:32 2

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Re-read partition table on specified device without rebooting system (here /dev/sda).

Get your external IP address if your machine has a DNS entry

Easy way to see your real external IP

find builtin in bash v4+

This command will give you the same list of files as "find /etc/ -name '*killall' | xargs ls -l". In a simpler format just do 'ls /etc/**/file'. It uses shell globbing, so it will also work with other commands, like "cp /etc/**/sshd sshd_backup".

Factorial With Case

Computes factorials.

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Stripping ^M at end of each line for files

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"

Run bash on top of a vi session (saved or not saved), run multiple commands, instead of one at a time with :!(bashcommand), type exit and [enter] to get back to where you left off in vi.

Helps when I'm editing a script and want to double check some commands without having to exit out of vi multiple times or having to use another terminal session.

ensure your ssh tunnel will always be up (add in crontab)

I find it ugly & sexy at the same time isn't it ?

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

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