Amazon EC2 Docs and locations

To work with command line on the Amazon Cloud you need to get hold of the following file which is the EC2-api-tools look for the latest version here : I used the file found here. When trying to setup the Amazon EC2 tools you would expect to have some script that asks you key questions and sets up the environment…

List interfaces and IPs neatly

The following command gives a neat list of the Devices and their IPs / details without all the gruesome details. ifconfig | egrep  "Link|inet" A sample result would be: [root@testarossa-00-0c-29-47-8f-35 vm]# ifconfig | egrep "Link|inet" eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:47:8F:2B inet addr:192.168.47.135 Bcast:192.168.47.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:47:8F:35 inet addr:192.168.1.71 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 lo Link…