Comments on: What webserver shell function http://www.cmdln.org/2008/12/05/what-webserver-shell-function/ a system administrators mutterings Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:51:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben http://www.cmdln.org/2008/12/05/what-webserver-shell-function/comment-page-1/#comment-653 Ben Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:24:47 +0000 http://www.cmdln.org/2008/12/05/what-webserver-shell-function/#comment-653 Here's a diet version for a single host: $ curl -sI google.com | grep Server Here's a version with only alphabet letters and dashes & pipes: $ lessecho google.com wpi.edu | xargs curl -sI | grep Server (lessecho comes with less, xargs with findutils, at least in Debian/Ubuntu) thus: what-http-server() { lessecho $@ | xargs curl -sI | grep Server } Here’s a diet version for a single host:
$ curl -sI google.com | grep Server

Here’s a version with only alphabet letters and dashes & pipes:
$ lessecho google.com wpi.edu | xargs curl -sI | grep Server
(lessecho comes with less, xargs with findutils, at least in Debian/Ubuntu)

thus:
what-http-server() { lessecho $@ | xargs curl -sI | grep Server }

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