Commands by mobidyc

Commands by mobidyc (9)

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Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX
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0

netstat -in

mobidyc · 2010-02-04 15:24:58 0
Mirror every lvol in vg00 in hp-ux 11.31
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1

find /dev/vg00 -type b |while read L; do lvextend -m 1 $L /dev/disk/<disk> ; done

mobidyc · 2010-02-04 15:18:26 0
A function to find the newest file in a directory
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3

newest () { find ${1:-\.} -type f |xargs ls -lrt ; }

mobidyc · 2010-02-04 14:52:17 3
view file content with echo

another replacement for cat.
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-2

echo "$(</etc/issue)"

mobidyc · 2009-09-14 09:44:35 0
send echo to socket network

this command will send a message to the socket 25 on host 192.168.1.2 in tcp. works on udp and icmp understand only IP address, not hostname. on the other side (192.168.1.2), you can listen to this socket and test if you receive the message. easy to diagnose a firewall problem or not.
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24

echo "foo" > /dev/tcp/192.168.1.2/25

mobidyc · 2009-09-12 16:48:05 3
find only current directory (universal)

you must be in the directory to analyse report all files and links in the currect directory, not recursively. this find command ahs been tested on hp-ux/linux/aix/solaris. Show Sample Output
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```
find . $ ! -name . -prune $ $ -type f -o -type l $
./bosinst.data
./smit.log
./lib
```
1

find . $ ! -name . -prune $ $ -type f -o -type l $

mobidyc · 2009-09-12 15:58:56 5
no more line wrapping in your terminal

works on all unices. Show Sample Output
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```
ps auxwww |nowrap
```
4

function nowrap { export COLS=`tput cols` ; cut -c-$COLS ; unset COLS ; }

mobidyc · 2009-09-11 15:07:00 6
search for a file in PATH

search argument in PATH accept grep expressions without args, list all binaries found in PATH Show Sample Output
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```
$ sepath noo
/usr/openwin/bin/ttsnoop
/usr/sbin/snoop
$ sepath ^ps$
/bin/ps
/usr/bin/ps
/usr/ucb/ps
```
-1

function sepath { echo $PATH |tr ":" "\n" |sort -u |while read L ; do cd "$L" 2>/dev/null && find . $ ! -name . -prune $ $ -type f -o -type l $ 2>/dev/null |sed "s@^\./@@" |egrep -i "${*}" |sed "s@^@$L/@" ; done ; }

mobidyc · 2009-09-11 15:03:22 2
Output files without comments or empty lines

better integration. works on all Unices works one bash and ksh. Show Sample Output
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```
$ catv /tmp/test
foo
$ cat /tmp/test |catv
foo
$ cat  /tmp/test
foo
# comment
#bar
```
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function catv { egrep -v "^$|^#" ${*} ; }

mobidyc · 2009-09-11 14:58:47 0

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Isolate file name from full path/find output

Quick method of isolating filenames from a full path using expansion. Much quicker than using "basename"

Limit the cpu usage of a process

This will limit the average amount of CPU it consumes.

Use mtr to create a text file report

The report mode of mtr produces a text formated result of the mtr run using the number of ping cycles stated by the command. This text file could then be attached to an email with ease. I use this also without the ">" portion when writing email from within mutt using VI from the command mode with ":r !mtr --report --report-cycles 10 www.google.com" to actually input the same output in the body of an email.

Search and play youtube videos directly to terminal (no X needed)

pyt 'Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin' pyt 'brain damage - Pink Floyd' No web browser or even X needed. Just a cli and internet connection! mplayer is pauseable and can skip ahead This may break if youtube changes their search html.

connects to a serial console

cu (call UNIX) establishes a full-duplex connection to another machine (*BSD) using a serial console. It becames more useful than screen if you have to send a BREAK signal. using cu just type "~#". $man cu http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cu&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Export MS Access mdb files to csv

-H suppress Headers -I Inserts instead of csv -R to give ; as the row delimeter. Probably you can concatenate each line with a ; while importing to the db.

Display the standard deviation of a column of numbers with awk

Do some learning...

I like it sorted... 2> /dev/null was also needless, since our pipes already select stdin, only.

Show all machines on the network

Depending on the network setup, you may not get the hostname.

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