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Nice little program to print a nice ascii artwork and a message in your terminal.

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The Cowsay program is very useful for printing information in your terminal. There are quite a few cow files allowing many useful avatars to print in your terminal. Install this today. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ sudo apt install cowsay Then run this command to list all the available *.cow files. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » … Read more

Another way to get IP address information from the Netstat command.

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Get IP address information using Netstat on Linux How to get IP address information using netcat and some other useful tips. user1@cloudshell:~$ netstat | awk ‘/tcp6/ { print $5 }’ 74.125.41.158:36146 173.194.93.92:48039user1@cloudshell:~$ netstat | awk ‘/tcp6/ { print $5 }’ 74.125.41.158:36146 173.194.93.92:48039 user1@cloudshell:~$ netstat | awk ‘/tcp6/ { print $5" – "$6,$4 }’ 74.125.41.158:36146 – … Read more

How to best get IP address information with Powershell on Windows 11.

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This example will get the current IP address(s) of the user`s machine. PS C:\Users\Intel i5> Get-NetIPAddress | Sort-Object -Property InterfaceIndex | where-object -FilterScript {$_.SuffixOrigin -eq "Dhcp"}     IPAddress : 192.168.1.114 InterfaceIndex : 10 InterfaceAlias : Ethernet AddressFamily : IPv4 Type : Unicast PrefixLength : 24 PrefixOrigin : Dhcp SuffixOrigin : Dhcp AddressState : Preferred … Read more

How to print your IP address with Bash on Mac OSX in the terminal app.

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This one-liner will print the current LAN IP address of a machine running Macintosh OSX. jason@. PWD: ~. -bash. 3.2.57. 10 $> ifconfig | grep "inet " | awk ‘FNR==2{print $2}’ 192.168.1.2jason@. PWD: ~. -bash. 3.2.57. 10 $> ifconfig | grep "inet " | awk ‘FNR==2{print $2}’ 192.168.1.2 This is 10.14.2 (18C54), but this command … Read more

Interesting and useful commands available using the BASH shell on Linux.

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This is an interesting command to view your command history when you are using Bash. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ hash hits command 1 /usr/bin/gethostip 1 /usr/bin/sudo┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ hash hits command 1 /usr/bin/gethostip 1 /usr/bin/sudo This command is a Bash shell built-in command. If you are using the tcsh or zsh shells; this command … Read more

Convert your IP address to binary easily with this command.

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This one-liner will take your IP address and convert it into binary. This is very useful and fun to do. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Videos] └──╼ ╼ $ ipcalc `ip a | awk ‘/inet / { print $2 }’ | sed -n 2p | cut -d "/" -f1` | awk ‘/Address/ {print $3,$4}’ 11000000.10101000.00000001. 00000010┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Videos] └──╼ ╼ $ ipcalc … Read more

How to get the gateway IP address of your machine on Linux.

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Getting the gateway IP address of your machine is a very important trick sometimes. This is very easy on Linux. Use the ip route command on Linux to print information about the IP routing. This includes the gateway IP address. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Videos] └──╼ ╼ $ ip route | grep default | awk ‘{print $3}’ 192.168.1.1┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Videos] └──╼ … Read more

Some more very useful Linux tips for scripting fans.

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How to get the total size of a folder using Linux scripting. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents] └──╼ ╼ $ du -ack -BM | sort -nr | head -n 1 | awk ‘{print $1}’ 30255M┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents] └──╼ ╼ $ du -ack -BM | sort -nr | head -n 1 | awk ‘{print $1}’ 30255M This shows the total size of … Read more

Another very useful way to get your public IP address from the Internet with the command line.

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This useful one-liner will get your IP address from the command line very easily. This uses Google services and works very well. 4.4 Tue Jun 30 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ dig TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com | sed -e ‘s/^"//’ -e ‘s/"$//’ 209.134.104.2004.4 Tue Jun 30 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ dig TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com | sed -e … Read more

How to get the IP address of your computer with Powershell.

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This is how to get the current IP address of the active network adapter in your Windows system. PS C:\Users\Doom> (Test-Connection -ComputerName (hostname) -Count 1).IPV4Address.IPAddressToString 192.168.1.2PS C:\Users\Doom> (Test-Connection -ComputerName (hostname) -Count 1).IPV4Address.IPAddressToString 192.168.1.2 This prints the IP address of your machine to the Powershell terminal. This is a great way to get just the IP … Read more

How to view network traffic to find a certain person that is hogging bandwidth.

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To view network traffic and then locate certain traffic that is hogging bandwidth, use the iftop utility. This is a great way to see what is going on in your network. Just install iftop. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ sudo apt install iftop Then run it with this one-liner. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ sudo … Read more

Another way to get the actual IP address of your machine.

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This is yet another way to get the actual IP address of your Linux machine on a LAN. This returns just the IP address of your Linux computer. jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~$ ip a | awk ‘/inet / { print $2 }’ | sed -n 2p 192.168.1.4/24jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~$ ip a | awk ‘/inet / { print $2 }’ | … Read more

How to get just the IP address of your Linux machine using curl.

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To get just the IP address of your Internet facing Linux machine, use this command. jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents/ipinfo/src$ curl icanhazip.comjason@jason-desktop:~/Documents/ipinfo/src$ curl icanhazip.com This will return just your IP address. This is another way to get this information. jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ curl ipinfo.io/ipjason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ curl ipinfo.io/ip To get information about a DNS server, use the dig command. jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents/ipinfo/src$ dig 8.8.8.8   … Read more

More commands to get information about your network adapter.

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There are a few commands available in Red Hat Linux to get information about your network adapter. Here are a couple. The ifstat command returns information about the network throughput of your adapter. [jason@darknet ~]$ ifstat #kernel Interface RX Pkts/Rate TX Pkts/Rate RX Data/Rate TX Data/Rate RX Errs/Drop TX Errs/Drop RX Over/Rate TX Coll/Rate lo … Read more

How to set a MAC address on a Cisco 3700 router.

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This command in interface configuration mode will change the MAC address for a specific interface on the router. R1(config-if)#mac-address DE.AD.BER1(config-if)#mac-address DE.AD.BE And this is what I get when I use the show run command and view the properties of the interface. interface FastEthernet0/0 mac-address 00de.00ad.00be ip address 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 ip nat inside ip nat enable … Read more