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Storing output of command in shell variable
I have an operation using cut that I would like to assign result to a variable
var4=echo ztemp.xml |cut -f1 -d '.'
I get the error:
ztemp.xml is not a command
The value of var4 never gets ...
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Repeat a Unix command every x seconds forever
There's a builtin Unix command repeat whose first argument is the number of times to repeat a command, where the command (with any arguments) is specified by the remaining arguments to repeat. For ...
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How to pipe the list of commands displayed by of “tab complete”?
When using commands in bash I like the double tab option to display the available commands. Some commands have more possible matches than others:
Is there a way I can pipe the output of the double ...
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How to tweet using terminal?
I would like to tweet a message using terminal.
I tried something like:
curl -u 'TwitterUsername':'TwitterPassword' -d status=”Your Message Here” https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
but seems ...
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How can I get information about my virtual desktops via the command line?
I'm curious how I can get information such as the dimensions of my desktop, which desktop is currently active, and what labels (if any) are set for my desktop enviornment (DE).
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Is there a way to simulate a “Close” event on various windows using the terminal?
I answered on Ask Ubuntu Quit all instances of gnome-terminal via a command but as you all can read gnome-terminal didn't seems to have a SIGcall I could use to simulate this "Close" event. So this ...
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Concatenate multiple files under subdirectories
My directory structure is given below
x:\Project_2012-158A\Sample_4041
SampleSheet.csv
4041_CGTACG_L002_R1_001.fastq
4041_CGTACG_L002_R2_001.fastq
4041_CGTACG_L006_R2_001.fastq
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