The command-line is the interactive interface to your shell.
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rlwrap: mysql autocompletion not working
When I connect to my database normally, autocompletion works fine. I have a table called booking. When I type the letter b and pres TAB the name of my table gets autocompleted:
SELECT * FROM ...
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Am I running Bash?
I am using OS X 10.8.5. I am trying to figure out if the terminal is running bash. When I type in the following it says "getent" command not found -- but the error message seems to be coming from ...
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How can I get sublime text to run from the command line?
I am trying to get sublime text to run from the command line using this tutorial.
It says to run this command:
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
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What command will generate average lines per minute?
I'd like to know how many average lines are written to a file per minute. Could someone help me with a command or code to generate this number?
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How to use grep command to find the matching pattern and some more characters? [duplicate]
I have a compressed JS code and I want to find a pattern, but since the file is compresses, it has only a line, and the match pattern is all the file. The output is too much large.
grep -r ...
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how to run .dump command in linux? [on hold]
I want to create dump file of sqlite database from java but I can't run the below command from linux. I got the help of windows and I tried with linux but it appears one terminal nothing more than ...
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Is there a command such as xwininfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, or xlsclient that will tell me what font an X client window is using?
I'm trying to find a command that will report what font a given X window is configured to use. Does such a command exist?
Looking through these tools I did not see an option that would give me this:
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What is a “non-option argument”?
I am trying to understand info who but completly fail at the term »non-option argument«. Can someone please explain this term to me in simple words or an example?
UPDATE: from ' info who' ...
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Connect to a Bluetooth device via Terminal
I'm using Mint 15 w/ cinammon.
I bought a set of bluetooth speakers and i'm tring to connect to them via terminal. Via GUI i can see them normally and i am connected to them. I want to make a small ...
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Piping fragments of a document through various commands
I want to send, maybe using escape sequences such as $$$, fragments of an article through various commands, possibly with modifiers. The stdin would be replaced by the corresponding stdout. (Deleting ...
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Obtaining XWindows GUI menu item/widget names from the command line
I have just learned about dogtail, and it can allow enumeration of menu items/widgets of a GUI application from the command line; for instance (via Testing/Automation/DogtailTutorial - Ubuntu Wiki):
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Command line options of rackup are not shown in ps output or procfs
As you know if you wish to get command-line runtime arguments for running command you can parse ps -e or /proc/<pid>/cmdline.
But I have encountered issue when this method returns only command ...
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How can I finding the Modify/Access/Change time of a file or directory? [closed]
I am using Debian 7.2 and would like to know the shell command for finding the MAC time of a file or directory. I tried
man -k "MAC"
and got a lot of hits about macros. I then tried
man -k "MAC ...
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In which way is a commented line active in a program file?
To solve the bug reported here the solution seems to be commenting, not just adding a certain line in a file - as explained here and here.
That is - to make that bug disappear in Xfce, a certain line ...
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How exactly do I create a sed script and use it to edit a file? [duplicate]
I know how to edit a file using sed one step at a time, but how would I create an actual sed script and then use it on the file to do the same things that the individual sed commands would do? For ...
