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Git auto-complete
I am using Git as many of you do. Also, I don't use any GUI for that — just CLI. So I was wondering: are there any way to make Git commands (git status, git checkout etc.) complete themselves when ...
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How to check will my computer is going to reboot(or shutting down)?
When I send a reboot command(or shutdown) command to a Linux machine does it keeps that messages at somewhere and can I query it. I.e. I will send a reboot command and after that I will run another ...
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Why does this compound command report errors when copying directories? [duplicate]
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Why does this compound command report errors when copying directories?
if one executes the following two commands in one line, as follows,
rm -rf dir ; cp -r dir2 ...
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Why does this compound command report errors when copying directories?
if one executes the following two commands in one line, as follows,
rm -rf dir ; cp -r dir2 dir
it may complain that cp can not create directory dir/subdir: File exists
but if these two commands ...
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Print folders names character count
I am trying to use find . -type d -print | wc -m where -m or --chars would print the character counts of the folder names.
Take following screen shot as example, the character count for tempFolder + ...
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Get a list of 3 letter commands on Mac OS X
How can I either create or find a list of 3-letter unix commands on Mac OS X?
I'd like to create a new program/command for a project. I'd like to make it a 3-letter name, but I don't want to conflict ...
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Check if the command exists in bash
I want to check if a given command exists in bash and I care only about the native commands of the bash and not the scripts written by the user. When I refer to native commands I mean all those ...
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is there any command like “wall” that runs a “command” in all terminals
as you know "wall" command sends a message to all terminals:
wall message
now my question is this: is there any command that can send a "command" to be run in all terminals?
for example sending ...
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Make awk use bash with the system() command
Is there a way to make awk use bash instead of sh when running system commands using the system() call?
I want to use some bash-specific features such as [[ ]] and < > string comparison operators:
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Execute command in remote active terminal
Suppose you have a terminal emulator (T1) open with a PID of 6350.
From another terminal, type this command (C1):
echo "ls\n" > /proc/6350/fd/0
This writes ls and the new line in T1 but does ...
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Linux Rename File Beginning with “--” [duplicate]
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How do I delete a file whose name begins with “-” (hyphen a.k.a. dash or minus)?
This is an awkward one, I have received some files from a windows machine ...
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Why is cd not a program?
I've always wondered why cd isn't a program, but never managed to find the answer.
Anyone know why this is the case?
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How to active tabs on windows by terminal? wmctrl doesn't have option available
I'd like improve a script of mine that uses firefox to perform tasks. I need activate a window and a tab with a specific name. For example, the window name could be Mozilla Firefox and the tab ...
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Searching a file & excluding lines with a specified string
I have a large log file that contains numerous lines of the same entry, lets call it "repeat-info". As an example here is what a portion of the log might look like:
[Timestamp] repeat-info
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Which are the standard commands available in every Linux system?
I would like to know which are the standard commands available in every Linux system.
For example if you get a debian/ubuntu/redhat/suse/arch/slackware etc, you will always find there commands like:
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how to forbid a command without a permission
I intended to delete all the backup files in a directory, so I was going to type rm *~ in the terminal. Unfortunately, I hit the Enter before hitting the tilde and unhappy things happened. Although, ...
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How to execute one command on all files within a folder
Saying, I have this tree and I want to execute ruby on all scripts within the folder. How could I archive through one line of command.
./
../
rb-script/
sample1.rb
sample2.rb
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how to get out from the command iostat on unix?
I was installing a .iso 8,2 version in a vmware to learn unix., and i am stuck with iostat command, i run iostat 3 and is keep going to show me the results, but whem i put exit or q or q! to exit, he ...
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What is the purpose of -e in sed command?
I can't find any documentation about the sed -e switch, for simple replace, do I need it?
e.g.
sed 's/foo/bar/'
VS
sed -e 's/foo/bar/'
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Execute string result from shell script as a set of shell commands
I create a string result from my shell script and i want to execute it as a shell command.
For example file_a is:
user1@gmail.com
user2@gmail.com
script:
awk '{print "mail -s \"welcome\"", $1}' ...
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Is there a command that outputs a line-numbered file starting the numbering at a specific line?
cat -n file outputs file with line numbering, but how can I specify at which line to start the numbering? Is there a command that can do that?
I've thought of perhaps splitting the process into a few ...
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How to list available app commands in terminal
I'm using fluxbox and recently i wanted to start an application for video editing and i couldn't remember it's name. I usually run apps from terminal so I was wondering is there a way to list all ...
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Ignoring files that find cannnot search or open?
I searched for big files using this command on HP Unix:
find . -type f -size +100000000c -exec ls -lrt {} \;
The result came out somthing like this:
-rw-rw-rw- 1 qa1wrk32 test 169263642 ...
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In UNIX, how to find the most commonly used commands in history of unix?
In UNIX, how to find the most commonly used commands in history?
