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geoip information
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geoip() { wget -qO - http://freegeoip.net/xml/$1 | sed '3,12!d;s/<//g;s/>/: /g;s/\/.*//g' ; }

vando · 2011-10-25 21:07:08 47
Short URLs with is.gd

No curl and no sed, just wget :)
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2

isgd() { /usr/bin/wget -qO - "http://is.gd/create.php?format=simple&url=$1" ;}

vando · 2011-10-15 16:12:36 5
Get your local/private IP

If you don't send an interface, it shows private IP address of all interfaces
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localIP() { ifconfig ${1:--a} | sed '/Link encap\|inet\|6 addr/!d;s/Link encap.*$//;s/.*inet addr:$[0-9\.]*$.*/\1/g;s/.*inet6 addr: $.*$ .*/\1/g' ; }

vando · 2011-03-20 04:59:54 48
List your MACs address
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11

lsmac() { ifconfig -a | sed '/eth\|wl/!d;s/ Link.*HWaddr//' ; }

vando · 2011-03-19 12:41:38 10
Show regular expressions on directory list

lgrep regex [dir]
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lgrep() { /bin/ls -A --color=always ${2:-.} | /bin/grep $1 ; }

vando · 2011-03-14 16:08:00 4
Find the correct PID

I know you can use pidof but with this you can know the specific PID with his command arguments (useful if you're running various proccess with same application)
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pss() { ps -eo pid,args | sed '/'"$1"'/!d;/sed/d' ; }

vando · 2011-03-14 15:51:49 6
Down for everyone or just me?

Check if a site is down with downforeveryoneorjustme.com
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down4me() { wget -qO - "http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/$1" | sed '/just you/!d;s/<[^>]*>//g' ; }

vando · 2011-03-11 14:38:38 5
Short URLs with ur1.ca

ur1.ca needs http:// on your URL
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ur1() { curl -s --url http://ur1.ca/ -d longurl="$1" | sed -n -e '/Your ur1/!d;s/.*<a href="$.*$">.*$/\1/;p' ; }

vando · 2011-02-06 16:07:00 8
geoip information

Shows you the geolocation of an IP address. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
user@foo $> geoip 208.67.222.222
      Host Name: resolver1.opendns.com
     IP Address: 208.67.222.222
        Country: [14]United States united states
   Country code: US (USA)
         Region: [15]California
           City: San Francisco
    Postal code: 94105
```
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geoip() { lynx -dump "http://www.geoiptool.com/en/?IP=$1" | sed -n '/Host Name/,/Postal code/p' ; }

vando · 2011-02-04 14:12:02 14

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