bashrc, alias, quickies, productivity hacker

[pita]

If you got tips,tricks,hacks that you willing to share

heres somthing I use sometimes

alias whatismyip=' curl -s www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp; echo ""'

 

[vishalrao]

How about using "http://checkip.dyndns.org/" shorter/cleaner URL for curl, does that count as an uber leet tip/trick/hack?

 

[pita]

no thats a so so hack 😛

alias checkip='lynx -dump  http://checkip.dyndns.org'

dyndns returns htmled output instead of plain text, curl wouldnt do justice.

 

[vishalrao]

ah, i just did "telnet checkip.dyndns.org 80" then "GET /" and yes, its html, i always thot it was just a line of text...

 

[prakash_mvpa]

well for finding IP of sites,isnt "nslookup" enough 😉