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Why screen is not splitting my GNOME terminal?

I am working in a remote Linux box using VNC.I have a single terminal with lots of tabs opened in my system. How can I split them using the screen utility? Does the screen utility work with already ...
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Difference between commands in bash script and commands in terminal

Are there any differences between commands that you type into the terminal and commands you include in a script?
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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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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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1answer
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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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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 ...