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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23

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
```
1

function catv { egrep -v "^$|^#" ${*} ; }

mobidyc · 2009-09-11 14:58:47 0

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