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  • easily strace all your apache processes

    This one-liner will use strace to attach to all of the currently running apache processes output and piped from the initial "ps auxw" command into some awk. Show Sample Output


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    ps auxw | grep sbin/apache | awk '{print"-p " $2}' | xargs strace
    px · 2011-03-14 21:45:22 7
  • For a $FILE, extracts the path, filename, filename without extension and extension.

    Useful for use in other scripts for renaming, testing for extensions, etc. Show Sample Output


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    FILENAME=${FILE##*/};FILEPATH=${FILE%/*};NOEXT=${FILENAME%\.*};EXT=${FILE##*.}
    eduo · 2009-06-10 16:11:38 4
  • easily strace all your apache processes

    This version also attaches to new processes forked by the parent apache process. That way you can trace all current and *future* apache processes.


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    ps auxw | grep sbin/apache | awk '{print"-p " $2}' | xargs strace -f
    msealand · 2013-02-19 19:14:57 0
  • 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 Show Sample Output


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    head -n1 | xargs -I {} aws sts get-session-token --serial-number $MFA_ID --duration-seconds 900 --token-code {} --output text --query [Credentials.AccessKeyId,Credentials.SecretAccessKey,Credentials.SessionToken]
    keymon · 2016-04-12 10:57:00 1
  • easily strace all your apache processes


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    pgrep -f /usr/sbin/httpd | awk '{print"-p " $1}' | xargs strace
    savagemike · 2015-06-10 22:55:35 1
  • easily strace all your apache processes


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    ps -C apache o pid= | sed 's/^/-p /' | xargs strace
    depesz · 2011-03-15 08:46:33 0

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