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Display all network interface names on any Linux system from the shell: | Display all network interface names on any Linux system from the shell: | ||
<pre style="color:blue">ifconfig | grep BROADCAST | cut -d " " -f1 | sed 's/.$//' </pre> | <pre style="color:blue">ifconfig | grep BROADCAST | cut -d " " -f1 | sed 's/.$//' </pre> | ||
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| + | Most Linux machines will only display one network interface, such as shown on my Slackware 14.1 Virtual Machine Server: | ||
| + | <pre style="color:blue">eth0 </pre> | ||
| + | <br /> | ||
| + | Other systems may have more than one, such as those with virtual machine software. | ||
Sample output from my Fedora 20 VirtualBox server: | Sample output from my Fedora 20 VirtualBox server: | ||
<pre style="color:blue">em1 | <pre style="color:blue">em1 | ||
virbr0</pre> | virbr0</pre> | ||
| + | <br /> | ||
| + | And here is a sample output from my Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) laptop running VMWare: | ||
| + | <pre style="color:blue">p5p1 | ||
| + | vmnet1 | ||
| + | vmnet8</pre> | ||
<h3> | <h3> | ||
The "ps" Process Command Syntax | The "ps" Process Command Syntax | ||
Revision as of 13:51, 17 November 2014
Shell Commands
Display all network interface names on any Linux system from the shell:
ifconfig | grep BROADCAST | cut -d " " -f1 | sed 's/.$//'
Most Linux machines will only display one network interface, such as shown on my Slackware 14.1 Virtual Machine Server:
eth0
Other systems may have more than one, such as those with virtual machine software.
Sample output from my Fedora 20 VirtualBox server:
em1 virbr0
And here is a sample output from my Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) laptop running VMWare:
p5p1 vmnet1 vmnet8
The "ps" Process Command Syntax
To show all executing processes:
$ ps ax
To show all processed running by a specific user(This example shows all processes running by the Apache WebServer):
$ ps -U apache