Questions tagged [command-line]
The command-line is the interactive interface to your shell.
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Using grep and command line argument
I have a file f1 with contents:
james john joe
marie james
joe
don marie
I want to output the occurrence of the command line arguments in each line using grep in a shell script s1.sh with ...
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SSH timeout does not happen
In Linux kernel 4.9.275,ssh version OpenSSH_8.5p1 and OpenSSH_8.7p1 session does not close automatically after specified time in clientaliveIntervl /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
Is it bug?
Kiran
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How to install gdb with no package manager?
I'm trying to reverse engineer some software on a system that runs embedded Linux. I've ssh-ed into it, and right now I'm trying to attach gdb to one of the processes so I can get some information on ...
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Extend the OS disk on Ubuntu 20.04
I have a VM on Azure with Ubuntu 20.04, the partitions looks like :
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs ...
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How can I pipe an alias that requires sudo through SSH?
I've set up so that I can SSH securely into my home PC from my laptop. Today, I tried running an update just to test, but I couldn't do it from the laptop.
What I basically wanted to do, was to pass ...
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Where is the "List files only" Nautilus' permission on terminal?
I found out that some folders may have the "List files only" permission on Nautilus. Others have "Access files". Both folders show the same on terminal, using ls -l command:
drwxr--...
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cant install a leafpad and gedit in kalilinux using sudo apt get install.......can you please guide me?
run apt-get update
Command 'run' not found, did you mean:
command 'runc' from deb runc
command 'srun' from deb slurm-client
command 'zrun' from deb moreutils
command 'zun' from deb python3-...
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How to change the system refresh rate from the command-line?
Projectors appear to typically support 24p playback (incl. 23.976Hz less commonly, it seems) — currently I'm manually toggling between 24Hz and 60Hz in the Gnome settings when switching from film or ...
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Process the same stdin two time and append the outputs
I have a json file that looks like:
[
{
"key": "alt+down",
"command": "-editor.action.moveLinesDownAction",
"when": "...
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substitute 2 substrings from a single line in a file into 2 different lines in a different file from command line
I have a text file with however many lines. One line is:
fixed_stringA = 123, fixed_stringB = 456
I have a second text file (again with however many lines). These 2 lines are in this order, in middle ...
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How to limit messages from the wall command to a specific group?
The description for the wall command states that it sends a message to all logged in users. However, the man page describes a flag, -g --group, which allows the sender to limit messages to a specified ...
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Remove certain words and set word at end of string in files
I have a bunch of files that contain strings similar to:
Get<1>(abc)
Get<2>(xyz)
How can I recursively search for all files with the above pattern and remove everything before the first '(...
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autossh works in CLI but not with SystemCtl
I try to use reverse ssh on my Synology. I use this library: https://github.com/blondak/synology-autossh. Everything works when I launch this command directly from the CLI:
/volume1/homes/user/...
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How can I repeat only a part of a command in bash?
I'd like to know if it's possible to just repeat part of a command.
I.e. if I do ls /path/to/somewhere -a, I only want to remove ls and -a.
I know that if I do !! it repeats the previous command (...
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How to recursively delete the contents of all "node_modules" directories (or any dir), starting from current directory, leaving an empty folder?
Suppose I have a directory structure like this:
projects/
project1/
src/
node_modules/
dir1/
dir2/
dir3/
file
project2/
node_modules/
dir4/
Starting from ...
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How to change Linux terminal prompt
I've been using Terminator as my terminal but after reconfiguring my display manager to 'Lightdm' after 'gdm3' crashed while installing updates, I messed something up, not with terminal, using the GUI ...
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Interacting with GUI from CLI (headless GUI)
I have linux server.
I expect there's headless GUI that can be controlled by CLI for my server.
I do know it possible display GUI with XRDP. But I expect I can control it with SSH or CLI. It works ...
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FLAC encoders – any difference in output between the command-line tools?
I would like to know if there is any difference in the final output between the various command-line tools for encoding FLAC files, like ffmpeg, sox, the “official” flac etc. In some contexts, I have ...
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less command: b/f vs w/s
About the less and according with:
Less command
Linux / Unix Colored Man Pages With less Command
indicates the following:
f ^F ^V SPACE * Forward one window (or N lines).
b ^B ESC-v * Backward ...
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less command g vs p option
In less for navigation purposes according with this tutorial
Less Command in Linux
indicates:
g Go to the first line in the file.
p Go to the beginning of the file.
I tested both, and of course ...
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Blocking UDP port 140 from receiving packets from source port 8989 (active way to send signal to sender that is unreachable)
So my problem is that I want to block UPD port 140 from receiving packets from port 8989, but I want to block it actively, not just silently ignore it, but to send an active signal to the sender of ...
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Why this sed command prints all the lines?
Why this sed command:
sed /^a/,/i$/p
prints all lines and not just the lines that beginning with "a" and end with "i"?
It is not too clear to me how sed /BEGIN/,/END/p works.
STDIN:...
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How to know what are commands, system calls, bash built-ins, etc?
A coworker recently asked "What is man"? After being informed that not all things accessible from the Bash CLI are commands, I was wary to call man a command.
man man just calls it an ...
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align data by word into column
How can I align data into pretty columns relative to given word?
For example, I have output of the route -n command:
default via 172.20.99.254 dev eth0
87.33.17.71 dev tun0 scope link
89.223.15.12 ...
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Retrieve last command when Chaining
When chaining commands in zsh using ;, && and ||, how can I access the previous command in chain (the command that is being executed before)?
Example:
rm foo ; echo ...
In place of the dots, ...
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Difference between sort -u and uniq -u
I always have been using sort -u to get rid of duplicates until now.
But I am having a real doubt about a list generated by a software tool.
The question is: is the output of sort -u |wc the same as ...
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Can program notify itself any opened shell?
I am planning on write CLI program. This CLI program should have ability to run at scheduled time.
Is it possible for this program to somehow notify user's shell? Sort of like mail tells you that you ...
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execute set of commands in group by {} vs () [duplicate]
I read this post:
How do I run multiple background commands in bash in a single line?
I understand the answer, but having the option to execute a set of commands through either {} or () makes to ...
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in linux how to stop or suspend or hangup a job without using fg command or ctrl+z? [duplicate]
i am new on linux but i have an assignment and it requires to stop and suspend and hangup certain jobs without using the fg or ctrl+z commands like this picture and what does the dot after the number ...
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Run a shell command via tower-cli
Ansible CLI allows to run a custom shell command (done implicitly using the default module "ansible.builtin.command"):
ansible myhost -a "/bin/mycommand"
Is it possible to do the ...
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Fedora Offline-Upgrade shutdown instead of reboot from CLI
Before turning off my Laptop (which runs Fedora 36) I like to run sudo dnf offline-upgrade download -y && sudo dnf offline-upgrade reboot || sudo shutdown now So that all pending updates get ...
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How to make CLI applications in Unix? [closed]
How are apps like vim and w3m built? I was trying to find info about this online but I couldn’t really find much.
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Creating a tar.gz archive of multiple directories of different locations -- "tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive"
I'm trying to create an achive:
$ cd /tmp
$ tar -czf test1.tar.gz -C ~/Downloads/dir1 -C ~/Documents/dir2 -C ~/dir3/dir4/dir5
... which is supposed not to preserve the full path of the directories in ...
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I3 WM bindsym giving error but in terminal, works fine
I have this in my i3 config to restart picom:
bindsym $mod+Shift+P exec killall picom; sleep 0.2; picom
It works fine in terminal but when I press the keybinding, it shows error, and it just says you ...
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Redirect the output to two different files, One should have new output whenever the commands execute and the other should have both new & old content
Redirect the output to two different files, One should have new output whenever the commands execute and the other should have both new & old content.
For example:
openstack port create --network ...
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Run cargo command in subdirectories with user-specified arguments
I've a directory structure like:
rust/
├── dir1/
│ └── Cargo.toml
└── dir2/
└── Cargo.toml
I want to create a zsh script that'll run from the rust directory, and for each subdirectory with a ...
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Cannot append user to group
I'm having trouble adding a user to a group:
# useradd -aG group user
# useradd -a -G group user
# useradd -G group user --append
It tells me that the -a option is an invalid or unrecognized.
Can ...
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Every row of a file is converted to a new file
I have a file that contains four columns and 5000 rows. I want to make 5000 new files from this file so that each file has one row from the original file. Also, I want to name the new files according ...
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Split pdf document based on section
(This may be a XY problem, more on the context at the end)
Is there any way of programmatically splitting a pdf based on the section titles? That is
from this pdf, produce 2 pdfs, where one contains ...
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What is the colon in postgres' process command-lines?
For example Postgres process command-lines are like
postgres 794 1 0 Nov06 ? 00:00:03 /usr/pgsql-9.3/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.3/data -p 5432
postgres 857 794 0 Nov06 ? ...
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How to get around 403 errors on websites with text-based browsers?
The issue seems to stem from a misconfigured web server and has affected some domains I've came across in lynx and w3m, but links can access at least in some instances. Can this be resolved on the ...
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Add new lines based on the columns of a tab delimited file
I have a tab-separated file like this:
211845 032
215979 002 071
217783 143 156 169
219750 111
For the lines that have multiple tab separated entries, I want to add new lines based on the ...
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Start Graphical Interface
I recently subscribed for a cloud company and launched application server under debian 10.5
I wanna go from command-line to graphical interface, but I can´t I typed startx , but I got.
I tried using
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Find how many words in a file contain a number in them?
I am trying to find the total number of words in a specific file that contain a number. Not a specific number, I'm just looking for words that contain any number at all. I tried using the grep and ...
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What's a clean way to run a specific command C for each line L of a given file F and then move every L where C(L) ran unsuccesfully?
Say that
https://example.nosuchtld
https://example.net
https://example.org
https://example.willfail
is the content of urls.txt. I want to run <command> <url> for every URL/line of urls....
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Command line - save sub-strings conditionally
Can a command line utility save sub-strings conditionally in different files? I have a file (file.txt) with several lines like the following.
1/1_ABCD4.txt:20020711
1/1_ABCD10.txt:20020731
2/2_ABCD2....
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How can I use the terminal and track what is being changed?
I was wondering if it's possible to use the CLI to track the changes I am making in an app launched through the CLI. For example:
Launch CLI.
Enter gnome-control-center.
Make random changes in the ...
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How to redirect while ignoring some of the text
Some potential duplicates may be the following:
How to ignore specific lines from being redirected
BUT I can't extrapolate from that to solve my problem. So, I am asking here instead.
So, here is what ...
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How to download all repositories of a GitHub account to my personal computer without using github cli? [duplicate]
I use WSL Ubuntu 18.04 unchanged.
I have one GitHub user with 6 GitHub repositories of that user.
Basically I just need to download all my GitHub repositories as I wish to make a local backup of all ...
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Dynamically generate arguments for python script input
I call a python script with some command line arguments like:
python3 script.py --run 1 --filepath "this/file/dir"
I now try to parse the arguments from a config file with:
grep -v '^#' ${...
