Bash is the shell from the GNU project. It is the standard shell on many Linux distributions and often available on other *NIXes.
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How can I add autocomplete for “gem which” with rbenv?
I am using rbenv on Mac OS X. I have autocomplete functionality already for the gem command:
$ gem
build environment lock query stale
cert fetch ...
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How to find emacs backup files?
Emacs backup files start with .# but I can find those in my directory. I've try:
find . -name '^\.#.*'
or
find . -name '.*#.*'
and they are not show up, and I have them. For instance if I create ...
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Dump process's stdin and stdout
I have two processes, let's say Parent and Child. Parent launches the Child and communicates with it through child's stdin and stdout.
Parent <-> Child
These processes use text protocol and I ...
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How do I output a suggestion for a user to accept and use as input?
What can I do to leave the cursor on the same line of the suggestion in a Bash script?
It's purpose is to suggest a string so that the user should only press Enter.
#!/bin/sh
echo "@@@@@@@@@@
@ ...
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GoAccess won't redirect its output as a CGI script
I've been pulling my hair with this script:
#!/bin/bash
echo Content-type: text/html
echo ""
goaccess -f /var/www/log/access.log -a | tee
Which runs perfectly on the command line (generates HTML ...
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Reply to ICMP requests automatically [migrated]
I'm using Scapy to perform a simple Ping test: One host sends a ping request and the other host replies.
Is there any way to make the 2nd host reply automatically for each ping request? E.g. running ...
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Default preference of executable over built-ins with the same name
I was playing around a bit with the names of some executables, putting them in a folder, ~/bin, which is in my $PATH. Now I'm wondering how I can set the preferences of a bash-3.2 terminal so that it ...
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Where do I place commands to automatically be exported for all users?
I have an embedded platform running an Arago linux distribution. Right now the only "user" is root but there will eventually be others, but I don't know how many or what user IDs they will have.
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Shell Script to isolate files scattered in different folders
I need to write a shell script that traverses a given directory structure in multiple levels, recognizes the video files scattered in the folders and copies all of them to another single folder. The ...
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how do i redirect output from tailf & grep to a file [duplicate]
All I wanted is to grep for specific lines in an ongoing log and re-direct it to some file..
tailf log | grep "some words"
Now, I want the above command output to get re-directed to some file in ...
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nohup daemon to check a folder for mismatch name pattern [on hold]
How will I keep a check on a folder for mismatched names for files only, and send that check to a log, only once. This code seems to be continuously doing it:
#!/bin/bash
line=/tmp/v005/*
while :
do
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How to add all binaries to bash tab completion for some command?
I've installed program trickle that allow to throttle the net for specified command like:
trickle -u10 -d10 <COMMAND>
How to add bash completion for all binaries to trickle command?
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Unit multiplier conversion in a shell script
I need to convert human-readable sizes into bytes. Unfortunately numfmt function is not accessible for me. Is there any other alternative? I need a shell/bash function to call from inside the sh ...
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Parallel execution of bash script
I have a table URL_Experiment in my database (mySQL database). I have 2 million URL links in this table.
For each URL, I am checking if some particular text is present in the URL and updating the ...
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Implementation Logic [on hold]
I have two files,which is something like this:
file1
msgid "New"
msgstr ""
dsvhuvchvdhcvhc
msgid "Old"
msgstr "hsvhs"
kdnvcjdbvj
msgid "Bold"
msgstr ""
file2
dcbjdsbc
msgid "New"
msgstr "Alas"
...
