Questions tagged [command-line]
The command-line is the interactive interface to your shell.
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how does the command line open and read file from the disk [on hold]
I am doing the exercises from the book Your unix/linux the ultimate guide.
I am having difficulty with one of the exercises. here it is
briefly describe for each command:
i) How the program foo ...
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How does a program know what to read in a pipeline? [duplicate]
How does the unix command line program know what file to read?
For example:
cat someFile | foo
How does the program foo know which file to read, and which process is responsible for opening and ...
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Find all the filenames in this directory that do not contain 'a' 'b' or 'c' in their name [duplicate]
I am trying to find all the files in my directory that does not contain the letters a,b or c; why does this command not work?
ls *[!abc]*
example: eg: MATCH: xyz, dkh, file, foo; NOT MATCH: bar, ...
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mv command is moving to the parent of the provided argument
Let's say I have a working directory:
/home/userID/workingDirectory
I type a mv command that will affect the parent directory of the current working directory and the working directory itself:
mv .*...
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Run combined hexo command from desktop entry
I have Debian 9.5 with xfce and hexo: 3.7.1
The question is about throttle my script called "draft":
s@lokal:~$ sudo cat /usr/local/bin/draft
#!/bin/bash
killall hexo
cd /home/s/Dropbox/blog
hexo ...
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How to show process tree with specified attributes
The command pstree shows a process tree such as this
systemd-+--agetty
+--dbus-daemon
+--login----bash---pstree
+--systemd-qqsd
I want to show a process tree with some ...
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The /bin/ prefix to kill command is getting rid of the error message
I have Debian Stretch..
I thought that a regular user could kill root process as root. I was using the command /bin/kill 10733 as the user. There wasn't any error message.
Then, I typed out the ...
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Grep exclude result + 3 lines from output [duplicate]
I would like to exclude matching pattern and the following lines from the output files.
When I use :
cat test1 | grep -Fx -A 3 -f test1ignore
The file test1 is here:
https://pastebin.com/...
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What does the command line symbols !! and !$ mean? [closed]
I start learning the command line. The roles of the exclamation point and the dollar sign are unknown to me despite a web search.
What does the following statements mean?
sudo !!
sudo cat !$
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Identify Resource Usage of a Process: CPU, Memory and I/O [duplicate]
I need to request some AWS resources and in order to do so, I need to identify what are my requirements for:
Number of CPU cores (maybe GPUs as well) (performs parallel processing)
Amount of Memory ...
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convert the dates to a standard format
I am using this command,
find -name (file name) -ls | awk '{print $11,"\t",$5,"\t",$7,"\t",$8,$10}'
to gather information of tons of files. However, some files are giving us weird numbers where ...
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How to produce from the terminal in a single command 2 emacs windows?
I am trying to open 2 separate windows/instances of emacs from the terminal in a single command. I have tried:
emacs &; emacs &
(error: bash:syntax error near unexpected token ; and
emacs &...
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What is the difference between the terms “program”, “command” and “function” in Linux & Unix?
I would like to know whether the commands that we call in the shell are functions or programs?
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How can I kill all child processes of a certain process from the command line?
I run both regular Chrome and Chrome Canary (from now on, Canary). Sometimes I want to kill all subprocesses, Google Chrome Helper, of Canary. The problem is that they have the same name as the ...
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Making a progress bar in BASH fixed at the bottom of terminal
I have made a pretty basic progress bar in BASH like this :-
doned=$1 #amount completed
total=$2 #total amount
doned=`echo $doned $total | awk '{print ($1/$2)}'`
total=`tput cols | awk '{print $1-...
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Taking a file argument for a Bash script
I'm trying to run a text manipulation script using bash. For the script, I want to take a text file for input using the following syntax
./my_Script.sh < filename
Is it possible to take input ...
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Partitioning sd card with sfdisk
I'm trying to bring up a custom kernel for beaglebone. So my first task is to partition my Sd card and make it bootable using this command.As I understand sfdisk no longer supports -D option. So I ...
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Using ls to find files that end in a character, ignoring extension
I am supposed to use ls to find files that end in a certain letter, but it does not matter if the file has an extension or not.
For example, I want it to do this
> ls
test test.txt test.ascii ...
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Print Jack Audio and MIDI ports to the command line
How do I print jack-audio and midi ports to the command line, similar to aconnect -io for inputs and outputs of ALSA MIDI?
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Use nohup and return to terminal and pipe to logger
I can redirect output to logger like this:
nohup bin/mytask | logger
But the process hangs, and my cursor doesn't return to the terminal after the command is sent. (I would have to return to ...
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tool like pnmcut but optimized for static files on disk?
Here's the scenario. I have a ginormous image (~ 30,000 pixels across, so my ginormous might be small to you). I want to take a lot of small cut outs from it. I have code right now that works with ...
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Command line tool to playback audio at variable “turntable speed”
I’m looking for a command-line tool that can play audio from a file at a specified rate and pitch, preserving the rate-pitch ratio. That is, playback with a control analogous to the turntable speed on ...
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Is there an equivalent of DETAIL DISK in Parted or other Linux DISKPART type consoles?
Im trying to scrape information of drive type. EG USB, RAID Etc..
In windows I can use DISKPART and run the command DETAIL DISK :
Example:
DISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
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What does “m” mean in mpstat?
I check the manual of mpstat it states:
The mpstat command writes to standard output activities for each available
processor, processor 0 being the first one. Global average activities ...
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change date/time format from yyyymmddHHMMss to dd/mm/yyyy HH:MM:ss
How do I change date/time format from yyyymmddHHMMss to dd/mm/yyyy HH:MM:ss
which is displayed as an output (eg. JOBNAME1 STARTED AT 20180904152402)
from a command...
grep JOBNAME1 | sed -e s/|/ /...
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cron not executing command with variable
I have some logic for executing java projects; it all works in the terminal console when I type it, but not in the cron scheduler:
run 1st microservice and get variable from POST request:
java -jar /...
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(BASH) String to execute is formed correctly, but evaluated with errors
I have been persistently trying to solve an issue with some code that I'd like to use to interact with AWS CLI. After trying for about a week, I decided to try to create the string of the command I'd ...
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Having issues with Backbox CTRL+ALT F* command to switch to CLI only
I cant get a screen shot, but what is happening (and this was happening before I switched from Ubuntu to Backbox) is when I press CTRL + ALT + F*, and it switches to the CLI (no GUI, no mouse and such)...
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ss command: difference between raw and unix sockets
The ss command (from the iproute2 set of tools which comes as a newer alternative to netstat) has in its --help the following options
-0, --packet display PACKET sockets
-t, --tcp ...
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Find files, print creation date and file name [duplicate]
I am trying to find all .odt files created this year, excluding some ending with quote, and output the create date and directory and file name with lines sorted by date. (Create date is important, ...
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Bridging Ports for Switch Hardware
I have a Dell S4128 switch with OpenSwitch OPX as the OS (built on Debian Jessie).
To get two devices to talk to each other directly over this switch without IP routing (similar to an unmanaged switch)...
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Metasploitable server
I'm not sure if this would be the right place to ask this question.
I've created a sample website using metaexploitable OS, and since this is a terminal-based OS I've been having trouble coding my ...
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tcsh alias with complex cmds, quotes and cmd arguments
I'm tying to alias a set of pipe commands, went thru some of the threads here and found that cmd line should be used differently.
instead of $1 use !:1 but it doesn't seem to work for me in the below ...
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Decompress firefox 57+ opened tabs file on Linux from the command line : Error 44 : Unrecognized header : file cannot be decoded
I need to decompress firefox 57+ opened tabs file.
I use unlz4 from the Ubuntu package liblz4-tool :
$ cp .mozilla/firefox/t6bznle5.default/sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4 ~/recovery.lz4
$ ...
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Locomotive doesn't work on a debian system: sl ls
PROBLEM:
I installed sl but when I type sl on the command line I get this:
bash: sl: command not found
(root@host)-(03:55:38)-(/home/user)
$apt install sl
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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What part of the terminal stack is responsible for the direction of text being output? [closed]
The question is asked here:
https://serverfault.com/questions/152310/reverse-bash-console-text-flow
https://superuser.com/questions/719317/can-i-reverse-the-stream-direction-of-my-terminal
https://...
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GNOME3: What's the path of gnome run dialog (ALT + F2)?
If I type "touch test" on run dialog it does not create any file on my home folder, so I was wondering where these files are created since I can do some dangerous things like fallocate or dd some ...
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Running OpenGL app without desktop
Is it possible to run an opengl application like glxgears from the command line without starting a desktop environment?
It should directly go to exclusive full screen mode.
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How to get Mac OS to remember previous auth. from my executable file
I'm writing a tiny unix executable file that changes my macbook's system time manually. Of course, this requires a password, and so I used the system() function to interface with the terminal and ...
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Replace string in command to be executed in zsh
Say I have written the following command but haven't yet pressed enter to execute it:
$ ls dir1 dir2 dir3
Is there a way to replace given characters without manually changing them in every location ...
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Yet another `rm: cannot remove 'file': Permission denied`
I want to remove the .html file from the /home/user1/html/ directory.
I have tried nearly all of the solutions posted on a myriad of other web sites. Nothing is working.
user1@comp1:~/html$ sudo rm ...
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How to verify a checksum using one command line?
Suppose I type and run the following command:
sha256sum ubuntu-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
After a delay, this outputs the following:
5748706937539418ee5707bd538c4f5eabae485d17aa49fb13ce2c9b70532433 ...
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Is there a way to set the QT icon theme, and other theme elements, from the command line?
I'm trying to automate the process of theming QT5 programs, in the absence of a DE like KDE, by writing a script that does it. I know that GTK has a bunch of config files that can specify all the ...
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Delete files with names that appear to begin with '?' in command line
I am running under Debian stable, Cinnamon DE and I have some files that I would like to delete with a command line (for now I delete these files with Nemo).
For example, these .txt files begin with '...
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Allow user to enter username before mounting shared drive
I have a mount drive which I usually mount using
sudo cifs -o "username=myshareddrive_username,uid=$(id -u),gid=$(id -g)" //server-address/folder /mount/path/on/ubuntu
Now, I have some linux ...
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How to clear Chromium Browser cache?
I'm trying to clear my Chromium browser cache using CLI on Gallium OS (based on Xubuntu). What command should I use?
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why $($var) gives an error?
I am trying to execute the following code in shell but I am not getting the output as expected. The command is as follows:
i=1
echo $($i)
I am getting an error:
Command not found error
I think it ...
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How to run multiple command in one line and some commands in background at the same time?
I know I can use & at the end of a command to make it run in background and && to connect multiple commands at the same line. However, when I use them together it seems not work. Below is ...
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How can I use 'stat' to detect a new file and then move it to a different directory?
Ultimately I want to detect a new backup file being dropped into a directory and then move that new file to another location for other operations.
This needs to work when there is nobody logged into ...
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Awk buffer size
I noticed this interesting set of commands today:
$ seq 5 > alfa.txt
$ awk '{print 6 > ARGV[1]} 1' alfa.txt
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2
3
4
5
$ cat alfa.txt
6
6
6
6
6
My first question was why am I getting several 6 ...
