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  • 04.22.09
    Need to know your public IP? network | rafacas | (0)
    Some times you may need to know your public IP address. With this simple command you can find it out: $ curl -s http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | egrep -o "[0-9.]+" There are some other sites where we can discover it like whatismyip or whatismyipaddress, but the user-agent needs to be spoofed beacuse they ban curl, so the solution is using the -A option: $ curl -A "Mozilla/4.0" -s http://whatismyip.com With the above command you will get the entire page bypassing the ban. But as the HTML of this pages is more complex and we do not want to fool them spoofing the user agent, we prefer ...
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  • 12.16.08
    TTYtter: twitter client for real commandliners scripts, shell | rafacas | (1)
    If you are a twitter adict (I know you are already a commandliner ;) TTYtter is your client. TTYtter requires only Perl 5.005 or better, and either cURL or Lynx. It supports encryption as long as your Lynx or cURL does. If your client supports it you can configure TTYtter to use SSL changing the relevant URLs. These can be changed using TTYter options (-url, -rurl, -uurl, -wurl, -update, -dmurl and -frurl) or you can cut and paste the following code into your .ttytterrc file in your $HOME directory: url=https://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.json rurl=https://twitter.com/statuses/replies.json uurl=https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline wurl=https://twitter.com/users/show update=https://twitter.com/statuses/update.json dmurl=https://twitter.com/direct_messages.json frurl=https://twitter.com/friendships/exists.json The default cURL's certificate bundle is old and may not support Twitter's current ...
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