Commands by netaxiz

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Ping all hosts on 192.168.1.0/24

Will report back IP address's of all hosts that are UP. Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.1.1
192.168.1.12
192.168.1.23
192.168.1.11
192.168.1.24
192.168.1.50
192.168.1.100
```
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fping -ga 192.168.1.0/24 2> /dev/null

netaxiz · 2014-01-31 19:19:19 12
put command in a loop to keep trying a connection

This will keep trying to reconnect your netcat connection can be used with SSH or Telnet, just substitute nc for ssh or telnet very useful for troubleshooting VPNs were you want to send continuous packets towards a destination to trace.
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while true; do nc <ip address of server> <port>;done

netaxiz · 2013-11-21 08:34:27 8
Check if TCP port 25 is open
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-2

sudo lsof -iTCP:25

netaxiz · 2013-11-20 08:26:37 10
Get a list of all browsable Samba shares on the target server.
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3

smbclient -L sambaserver

netaxiz · 2012-07-12 08:07:07 5
Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size
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9

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -hr | head -10

netaxiz · 2012-06-30 10:03:31 5
See size of partitions
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-5

fdisk -l /dev/sda

netaxiz · 2012-06-05 10:17:54 6
Watch the progress of 'dd'

run this in another terminal, were xxxx is the process ID of the running dd process. the progress will report on the original terminal that you ran dd on
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1

kill -SIGUSR1 xxxx

netaxiz · 2012-04-12 09:32:24 39
move you up one directory quickly

Use ZSH instead of bash, typing .. will move you up one directory, without the need to alias it.
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-23

yum install zsh

netaxiz · 2012-04-02 12:53:30 6
tail a log over ssh
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-2

ssh remotebox tail -f /var/log/remotelog

netaxiz · 2011-12-13 17:35:54 4

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Print one . instead of each line

this version only uses shell builtins

Generate random valid mac addresses

Ruby version. Also, a perl version: $perl -e 'printf("%.2x.",rand(255))for(1..5);printf("%.2x\n",rand(255))'

Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)

enable all bash completions in gentoo

enable each bash completion that you have installed at your system, that's very nice ;)

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection

Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

calulate established tcp connection of local machine

worked on ubuntu 9.04 and cygwin with MS netstat

burn initial session on a growable DVD using growisofs

replace "directory name to burn on DVD" with actual directory name that you want to copy on DVD

HTML5 ogg player

find OGG audio files on your *nix box and listen to them using your web browser

extracting audio and video from a movie

rips the audio and video stream of a movie. The two streams are stored separately.

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

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