The command-line is the interactive interface to your shell.
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How to fix Linux filename tab autocomplete that is appending a space instead of trailing slash on directories?
For some strange reason my filename autocomplete is behaving differently than normal. Given the following file structure ./foobar/file.txt, if I want to delete file.txt, I type rm ...
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Display the command being executing currently
I don't recall to have explicitly placed anything in my .bashrc file recently, but from yesterday I am able to see the command being displayed at the prompt before getting executed. I don't know how ...
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ps aux |grep 'asdf' grep: asdf: No such file or directory
For some reason a while back, the behavior of my command line changed, and I don't know why. Using OSX, now Mountain Lion(although this behavior was present before the switch).
Using standard ...
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sqlite fts quoting problem
I can do this in sqlite tool:
sqlite> select caption from notes_fts where notes_fts MATCH '"perl install"';
but cannot from the Linux shell i.e., this fails:
sqlite3 sqldb "select caption from ...
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How to switch PulseAudio inputs and outputs from command line?
At work I use to use an USB headset which gets detected as separate audio output and input (for the mic) devices. At home I use conventional analogue headset which is plugged into my laptop built-in ...
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RIPEMD-160 file digest
How can I make a file digest under Linux with the RIPEMD-160 hash function, from the command line?
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Command line input while a running script displays strange symbols
If I use the bash shell cli and run some program which doesn't return immediately, then I input some letters (basically typing the next command before noticing the previous didn't finish) and the ...
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How to echo (a (executable-)string) to the prompt, so that the cursor flashes at the end of the line?
How to echo (a (executable-)string) to the prompt to make the cursor sit at the end of the line?
So that I can hit Enter to execute or Ctrl-C to throw away the line.
Is this possible at all?
I ...
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How do you configure the MTU for all network adapters via a script?
NOTE: This is for RHEL/centOS.
Currently my way of configuring the MTU is via GUI using system-config-network and setting the MTU to 4096. I would like a non-interactive script to do this instead.
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How to make FreeBSD variant of cal start weeks on mondays?
Can week start day be changed in cal output?
Is it hardcoded? Notice: not the ncal.
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rexecd daemon for Ubuntu
How to start rexecd daemon/server on ubuntu-11.10 ?
If I try to run the command /usr/sbin/in.rexecd then an error appears as rexecd: getpeername: Socket operation on non-socket
rexecd is remote ...
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How can I debug POST requests with python's BaseHTTPServer / SimpleHTTPServer? [migrated]
I found a script on this site for running a simple server via the command line with python.
I added some print lines in because I'd like to print out the GET and POST parameters via the command line ...
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Console Text Editor with Windows-like keyboard shortcuts (ctrl-z, x, c, v)
Ok, I realise that I risk a religious war asking a question about text editors, but here goes.
Requirements
Mostly used for config file edits
Text based not GUI
Available for Raspian flavour of ...
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How to Connect to Wireless Automatically? (Non-graphical)
I'm trying to set up my Arch Linux so that, through non-graphical means, I can connect to a wireless network through profiles on my system.
I have tried net-auto-wireless, and it does everything I ...
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MySQL Linux Client Timeout/Keepalive
Is there a way to set a keepalive in the command-line MySQL client on Linux?
Our network recently moved to a VLAN setup, and our systems department no longer has control of the firewall. The ...
