Non interactive ftp for Linux users

FTP. Yes, people are still using it.

1.  non interactive ftp login:
   

   $ ~/.netrc
   machine server_name/ip
   login username
   password password
   
   $ chmod 600 ~/.netrc

   Now you can simply ftp to said machine and it will auto-login.
   
   
2.  Copying a file to the ftp server:
   

   • echo put FILE.ext | ftp server_name
     or
   •  curl -T FILE.ext ftp://server_name --user username:password

Checking your NIC is connected using bash

A simple yet effective way to test your network adapters connection status using  command line.

Requires: ethtool


# ifconfig -a|grep eth|while read line;do echo ${line%% *} && ethtool ${line%% *}|grep Link;done