Commands by williamruckman

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LIST FILENAMES OF FILES CREATED TODAY IN CURRENT DIRECTORY
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TODAY=`date +"%b %d"`;ls -l | grep "$TODAY" | awk '{print $9}'

williamruckman · 2010-07-29 02:28:27 5
Get IPv6 of eth0 for use with scripts
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-2

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet6 addr:' | awk {'print $3'}

williamruckman · 2010-06-26 02:11:00 4
Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts

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```
192.168.0.1
```
0

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' | awk {'print $2'} | sed 's/addr://'

williamruckman · 2010-06-25 23:48:25 6
Print IP of any interface. Useful for scripts.
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5

ip route show dev ppp0 | awk '{ print $7 }'

williamruckman · 2009-05-06 02:07:57 8
Start screen with name and run command

Runs an instance of screen with name of "name_me" and command of "echo "hi"" To reconnect to screen instance later use: screen -r name_me
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3

screen -dmS "name_me" echo "hi"

williamruckman · 2009-05-06 02:04:15 4

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Fetches the world population JSON data from the US census and parses it uses jshon

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