Going into a directory linked by a link
When I cd a link, my current path is prefixed with the link’s path, rather than the path of the directory the link links to.
E.g.
Unix & Linux
Interactive shell with environment identical to cron
I am aware of a lot of pitfalls in the magic world of crontabs, but sometimes it would help troubleshooting a lot when you have some smart way to enter an interactive (bash) shell with exact identical environment as when a shell script is run from a crontab.
Why is direct invocation as either egrep or fgrep deprecated?
According to the manual page of grep-Programs,
View extended ACL for a file with ‘+’ in ls -l output
A file in a ls -l listing has permissions such as:
What happens when the current directory is deleted?
In the first terminal A, I create a directory, enter the directory, and create a file:
Is it possible to see cp speed and percent copied?
I’m having problems when copying large files using nautilus (it gets stuck). I need to copy, using cp. I would like to know if there are any parameters that shows the % copied and also the transfer speed.
Finding the ID of a process and killing it
When ever I need to kill a background process I do ps -e | grep <process_name>
Why is redirecting STDERR to /dev/null done this way?
This does not make sense to me.
Is this a typo in Bash manual’s redirection section?
The use of the word duplication seems a little strange to me in
this context. Perhaps that is throwing me.
Why does the command shuf file > file leave an empty file, but similar commands do not?
3.1.1 Shell Operation