Bash stuff that I'm tired of looking for.

Backticks or the other thing I never remember.

`ping -c10 -W2 1.1.1.1`

$(ping -c10 -W2 1.1.1.1)

for x in 0{1..9} {10..12} ; do mkdir 2016/2016-$x

while read LINE; do echo $LINE; done < FILE

From: https://www.rubyguides.com/2012/02/cli-ninja-ping-sweep/

Linux Ping Sweep

for i in {1..254} ;do (ping -c 1 192.168.1.$i | grep "bytes from" &) ;done

What this does is a for loop from 1 to 254, $i takes the value of the current iteration so in the first one it will be 1 then 2, 3… and so on, then we tell it to call the ping command with the -c option which means only ping once otherwise it would ping forever after that we pipe the output to grep so we only see the hosts that actually responded and the & at the end send it to the background so it will launch all the pings in parallel. If we only want the ip address and not the whole line we can further filter this using cut.

# Check if script is cron or shell - two versions.

• StackOverflow: Can a bash script tell if it's being run via cron?

if [ -t 1 ] ; then
    echo "interacive mode";
else
    #send mail
fi

CRON=$(pstree -s $$ | grep -q cron && echo true || echo false)
then test with

if $CRON
then
    echo "Being run by cron"
else
    echo "Not being run by cron"
fi