The command-line is the interactive interface to your shell.
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Executable located in location A how to run it in location B?
So, I've an executable in my debian server and this executable located in /home/human/ExecuteIt, still i cant figure it out how to run my executable in another location. In my case it is ...
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Getting cpu usage same every time.
When I execute following command to get cpu usage , I get nice + user cpu usage.
top -b -n1 | grep "Cpu(s)" | awk '{print $2 + $4}'
Output:
14.5
Here I am getting problem is that the output ...
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Find links and their positions in a PDF
I need to find all links in a PDF file, along with the page they're on and their X/Y position. Is there any tool or combination of tools I can use to do that?
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How to mount a Truecrypt container with a timeout from the command line?
I'm mounting a truecrypt container via the command line (i.e. truecrypt file dir). Is there any way to have truecrypt automatically unmount the container after a given amount of inactivity in dir?
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QEMU Direct Access to Video Card (or, QEMU Video Output without X11)
I have a system that boots up into Linux at power on and then needs to boot into Windows XP Embedded. After messing around with kexec and grub4dos, things aren't working out too well.
One idea that ...
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How to access u boot environment from linux?
How can I access and change the u-Boot env variables in linux. Using the u-boot/tools/env directory in u boot directory:
u-boot$ make env
Which created the executable file fw_printenv. I copied ...
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Right way to start VirtualBox with shared folders mounted
Need of commandline to start VM with access to shared folder. Now if I run
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox --comment "win" --startvm "c252555c-bla-bla"
I get VM running but shared folders not ...
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automate login as sudo and su
I know the security risks, but I am performing this experiment/excercise on an old, seldom used *nix machine I have laying around the house. So doing this excerise will not bring any security risk to ...
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Jingle CLI client / Jitsi replacement / VOIP
I am looking for a Jingle client for the command line.
Currently, I use Jitsi, but my dreams of not needing the GUI for more than just web-browsing are not realized due to my reliance on this ...
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Add a new user steps for Oracle Linux 5
It's been over 10 years since I last used RedHat (which I believe that Oracle Linux came from). So I cannot remember the steps to create a new user, add them to the appropriate groups, set up their ...
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How to monitor other nodes to get RSSI?
I need to measure RSSI between two peers of nodes in same network.
If I have these two information:
SSID for their network.
IP for the target node to get the RSSI regarding it.
So I found this ...
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copy (to X clipboard) shortcut in .tmux.conf
In order to copy text to X clipboard in tmux, what I currently do is:
go selection mode with prefix[
start selection with space (using mode-keys vi btw)
select the text and press enter
copy tmux ...
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How do I make the CLI run on dedicated graphics?
I just finished my Gentoo minimal install and the first thing I wonder is why I get no picture. I did have signal on the live CD, so that was pretty odd. I plugged the monitor into the Intel HD ...
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Cisco-like command Line Interface
I'm looking for a way to implement a fairly basic Cisco like command line interface on my Ubuntu server appliance (12.04 in particular).
I've come across the following project: CLISH however, ...
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Importing hdhomerun channels into MythTV
I am setting up a MythTV backend, to stream Live TV from.
I scanned for channels with the hdhomerun_config utility, and got this
However, I really don't have a clue how to import it into MythTV.
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Command-line file reader (like “less”) that can tell the line where the user stopped reading
[Context] I'm developing a little app, as a hobby to learn ncurses, that catalogs and lists and searches within a set of documents (for now, they are the HOWTOs from TLDP).
The most tricky part of ...
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How to emulate a KWin effect by command line?
I would like to apply the Toogle Invert Effect when I start my system.
So, I need to know how to call this KWin effect using the terminal.
OBS.: I'd tried xte "keydown Meta_L" "key i" "keyup ...
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Using Image Magick Convert to Change Channel Depth?
I want to change an image depth of bitmap for testing purposes. Right now I am trying to get a 2 bit palette image, and a 4444 Hicolor image.
I have a true color bitmap. I used the below command ...
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Convert ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 using OSX' .bash_profile
When running certain rails scripts in OSX' Terminal, I get warnings such as the following:
unable to convert "\xA9" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for ...
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Install Linux Mint 14 from CLI
I'm trying to install Linux Mint 14 from a live cd on a HP Pavilion laptop. I got some problem with X and the nvidia card, which prevents X from starting (and therefore prevents the live installer ...
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rsstail Not Printing Output
I've installed rsstail 1.8 on my linux box and everything seems to be going smoothly, knock on wood, except for the part where rsstail isn't printing the streams. Running the command, I see that it's ...
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Processing shell script options with awk
I'm looking for way to process shell script arguments that is cleaner and more "self documenting" than getopt/getopts.
It would need to provide...
Full support of long options with or without a ...
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Wired connection from CLI with NetworkManager - “up” in elegant way
Sometimes I need to do some operational work in text mode
and I need to setup internet connection from command line (without any networkmanager applet).
(Please note: that when I run Window Manager, ...
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Running Tomcat MySQL and Apache under a group
I am trying to set up a web server at home using Ubuntu, but prefer my bash scripts to be platform agnostic hence why I am asking here. I also dislike apt-get everything. I am trying to create a ...
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Creating and updating the packages for many Debian systems
I'm using a Lenny (Debian 5) for remotely controlled PC's (around 100 PC's) which will be pinging to my apache server. I'm developing a patch twice in a week to keep updated with the latest versions ...
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ffmpeg: error while running with libx264
Main code: ffmpeg -i 2269801.avi -threads 0 -vcodec libx264 -b 900k -acodec libfaac -ar 44100 -ab 96k -ac 2 earthgirlsareeasy1.mp4
[libx264 @ 0x16cdde10]broken ffmpeg default settings detected
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i386 libtool conflicting with x86_64 libtool when installing Handbrake
I've been trying to install Handbrake on centos 5.8 with the help of some different guides. I'm running x86_64, and whenever I try to install packages necessary to build the binary, the arch ends up ...
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IBM V7000 scripts for monitoring
Hello (I'm no hard core coder:),
I try to develop a script to do some very basic monitoring on an IBM SVC.
My goal is to get some information about the nodes and my quroum status and then send ...
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Rsync seems to back up files that haven't been opened or changed
I have started using rsync to back some data on my mac to an external HD. It works really well, but I have noticed something odd. Every time I run the command, I get a list of files that haven't been ...
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get RSSI using commands?
mu network is group created by WIFI DIRECT, so i need to measure the signal strength RSSI between the client and its owner for android platform.
So, assume we know SSID and MAC address for owner or ...
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cli cURL send pinging with the method “weblogUpdates.ping”
From answer here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/36455/17948
The cURL command is:
$ curl <target-pingservice-url> -d 'name=<your site name>' -d url=<your-url> -d rss=/rss.xml
...
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running matlab command line in screen — can't type after reattaching
I'm logging in via ssh to a more powerful computer, on this I start a screen session with screen -S mine and then open a matlab command line via matlab -nodesktop -nodplash and then run within matlab ...
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Do you know any good replacement for bluez-simple-agent?
I'm using an old bluez version (3.36) and I need a bluetooth agent. I saw that there is bluez-tools but it requires a higher version of bluez. So, are there any other agents out there? I would preffer ...
