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The command-line is the interactive interface to your shell.
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Iptraf (somtimes) does not log info when run in background
I'm using Iptraf to get some statistics on my bandwidth consumption, I run the following :
iptraf -B -u -s ens33 -L /home/aymendaoudi/Desktop/test
as you can see I want the operation to stay in ...
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Need to get the command line of all the daemons that are running
I used the below command to list down all the daemons that are in a machine
/sbin/initctl list | awk '{ if ($1 == "tty") print $1" "$2; else print $1; }'
Now my next requirement is to get the ...
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Remove first character in a folder name [duplicate]
How can I remove the first letter from a directory name? for example:
Folder is named as "AFolder_01" how can I rename it to "Folder_01"
The reason for my question is that I have list of folders and ...
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Erase character with BackSpace on a bash command line
I have a configuration for bash and profile files, but I copied that file to other server so now I can't erase text only by pushing backspace, I need to press Shift + Backspace to erase text.
What is ...
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Format other drives than /dev/sda using dd
I have a second laptop which I want to sell. Before that, I need to erase my entire computer securely. To do so, I use an Ubuntu Live USB-Stick.
Entering lsblk gives me the following result:
max@...
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Finding last item in a line using grep
I'm attempting to take the last word or phrase using grep for a specific pattern. In this example, it would be the from the last comma to the end of the line:
Blah,3,33,56,5,Foo 30,,,,,,,3,Great ...
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fatal: cannot exec 'git-archive-all': Permission denied
I'm running a Perl script that has a line to run git-archive-all in the command line:
runx $git, 'archive-all', '--force-submodules', '--prefix', "$name-$version/",
$src_dir->file("$name-$...
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Is it possible to browse samba resources in command line?
I would like to browse Samba server resources from my command line. I guess this is possible, though not that sure if I could cd to smb directories. Do I need any special package to do that?
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Command to cycle commands?
Is there a command containing command1, command2, command3, command4, etc that when run will cycle between these?
My idea would be then to use that one command with a shortcut or launcher (in ~/....
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How to search and print corresponding value of match from the command line?
I have below string,
e.g.
2017-01-19:31:51 [ABCD:] 37723 - MATCH: 10 [text]
I want to find MATCH and print its value, 10, using awk. I am able to do this using traditional grep and cut but want to ...
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Find a file by hash
I have a file x1 in one directory (d1) and I'm not sure if the same
file is already copied (x2) in another directory (d2) (but automatically
renamed by application).
Can I check if hash of file x1 ...
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Reading Gmail from command-line: Full message body, and not just a summary
When I issue this command...
$ gmailUser=RECEIVER
$ gmailPassword="..."
$ curl -u "$gmailUser:$gmailPassword" --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom"
... I do see a summary of new message(...
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Identify the slow hop when downloading video
I'm downloading a video as follows
$ youtube-dl url_to_video
The download of the file is very slow
33.1% of 301.31MiB at 19.75KiB/s ETA 02:54:03
It was usually faster.
Could you identify with ...
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Determine how bash or sh was called
From a bash or sh shell, how can I determine if it was called with the bash or sh command, a login shell, an xterm, and, in the case of the former, how was that called?
For example, if I call bash ...
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How to download packages without FTP access on a Linux Server if no download commands are listed?
I am not a Linux expert and currently using a Fedora 23 Server (so only command line) with no FTP access for a project. I am used to install software directly in command line with prepared download ...
