Archive for December 30th, 2007

Get External IP

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Get the external IP of your system – useful if you have a dynamic ip…


curl -s checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'

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Show Disk Usage – du

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

du shows the ‘disk usage’ – the space taken up by the files and folders in the current directory.


du -bh | more

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