Get current public IP via command line curl and wget.
With curl:
curl icanhazip.com
curl ifconfig.meWith wget:
wget -qO- icanhazip.com
wget -qO- ifconfig.me/ip| onelinerGet public IP AddressSubmitted by sandip on Mon, 08/27/2012 - 21:01Get current public IP via command line curl and wget. With curl: curl icanhazip.comWith wget: wget -qO- icanhazip.com»  
 Check for fake googlebot scrapersSubmitted by sandip on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:13I noticed a bot scraping using fake GoogleBot useragent string. Here is a one liner that can detect the IPs to ban: $ awk 'tolower($0) ~ /googlebot/ {print $1}' /var/www/httpd/access_log | grep -v 66.249.71. | sort | uniq -c | sort -nIt does a case-insensitive awk search for keyword "googlebot" from apache log file removing IPs with "66.249.71." which belongs to google and prints the output in a sorted hit count. You can validate the IPs with: IP=66.249.71.37 ; reverse=$(dig -x $IP +short | grep googlebot.com) ; ip=$(dig $reverse +short) ; [ "$IP" = "$ip" ] && echo $IP GOOD || echo $IP FAKEReplace the IP value with the one you want to check. »  
 Find files used for htauthSubmitted by sandip on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 15:39Below will list all of the files that are used for apache authentication in /var/www/html file path: find /var/www/html -name .htaccess | xargs awk '{sub(/^[ \t]+/,"")};/File/{print $2}' | sort | uniqHere is the breakdown: find /var/www/html -name .htaccessFind all files named ".htaccess" at path "/var/www/html" xargs awk '{sub(/^[ \t]+/,"")};/File/{print $2}'The search output gets piped via xargs to awk, deleting leading whitespace (spaces and tabs) from front of each line and output is of only the second field of lines containing the text "File". sort | uniqAwk output is further piped through sort and uniq which results in the files being used for apache authentication. »  
 Remote backups with tar over sshSubmitted by sandip on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 15:26Below is example of backing up users' home directory to remote host piped via ssh: tar -cvzf - -C /home {username} | ssh {remotehost} 'cat >/path/to/bak/{username}.tgz'»  
 check webpage load time via wgetSubmitted by sandip on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 17:19Here is a simple one liner to check on download time of a webpage: (time wget -p --no-cache --delete-after www.linuxweblog.com -q ) 2>&1 | awk '/real/ {print $2}'»  
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