General specification for command line interface
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Unix & Linux
What does “Do you expect to run the X Windows System?” do when installing OpenBSD?
When installing OpenBSD 5.1, I got the question:
Will we ever “find” files whose names are changed by “find”? Why not?
While answering an older question it struck me that it seems find, in the following example, potentially would process files multiple times:
How to make a pipeline wait for end-of-file or stop after an error?
I tried the following command after watch this video on pipe shenanigans.
What are the scope restrictions for setting shopt extglob. and other options?
My non-interactive bash shell has extglob off. I would like to turn it on in the statement immediately before a command, but I have noticed that when shopt -s extglob is within an if .. then .. else block, it somehow does not register.
How can I capture stdout/stderr in a file but still see it in my console?
I’m using bash script on AMazon Linux. When I want to redirect stderr and stdout to a file, I can run
How do I redirect output to cd?
Is it possible to redirect a command’s output to cd? For example, I searched for a directory using locate and got the path to it. Now, instead of writing a cd path, can I redirect the locate output to cd?
Why does printf print more arguments than expected?
Why is this shell script printing inputs twice?
apt installing more packages than specified as dependencies
I was trying to install texmaker from the repository. For installing the texlive I followed the steps described here. For this the control file I used is this. It has the file texlive-binaries in it.
How to run grep and show x number of lines before and after the match
Context Line Control