I am running in an interactive bash session. I have created some file descriptors, using exec, and I would like to list what is the current status of my bash session.
I have three files file1.txt, file2.txt, file3.txt and they are of same format.
What is a portable1 way for a (zsh) script to determine its absolute path?
I understand ls uses dircolors to display colored output. dircolors has default database of colors associated with file extensions, which can be printed wiht the command
I know that pkill has more filtering rules than killall. My question is, what is the difference between:
How can I get the size of all files and all files in its subdirectories using the du command.
I want to run a command such as this in a bash script:
I’m attempting to write a script that will be run in a given directory with many single level sub directories. The script will cd into each of the sub directories, execute a command on the files in the directory, and cd out to continue onto the next directory. What is the best way to do this?
I’m on a Mac but I think this is generally Unix-applicable. I’m in the process of learning shell scripting and there’s something I seem to be missing. When I’m in the ordinary terminal, I can use scripting syntax like for loops and such in conjunction with commands to do stuff. But….bash opens an interpreter for … Read more
I’ve seen some people make a separate partition for /boot. What is the benefit of doing this? What problems might I encounter in the future by doing this?