How to move the first x files
I have this huge folder with thousands of unordered files. Is it feasible to move the first 5000s to a subfolder via the mv command? For now I move files with
Unix & Linux
Where can I get the original Unix?
Package: simh (3.8.1-5)
Bash script: check if a file is a text file
From the fact that it says file $attachment
rather than file "$attachment",
I guess your script cannot handle filenames that contain spaces.
But, be advised that filenames can contain spaces,
and well-written scripts can handle them. Note, then:
How can I find a rogue alias declaration?
I’m trying to find where a specific alias has been declared. I’ve searched all the usual places I know to look for aliases:
Why does cron silently fail to run sudo stuff in my script?
I have a script run from a non-privileged users’ crontab that invokes some commands using sudo. Except it doesn’t. The script runs fine but the sudo’ed commands silently fail.
Do command line options take an equals sign between option name and value?
Just using kubectl as an example, I note that
How can I fix “cannot find a valid baseurl for repo” errors on CentOS?
I finished installing CentOS 6, but when I tried running yum update I got:
How to know if extglob is enabled in the current bash session?
I have a bash terminal open. I want to find out whether the option extglob is enabled or disabled in this session, before I change its value. How can I do this?
What does it mean to have a $”dollarsign-prefixed string” in a script?
I just saw this in an init script:
Grep word within a file then copy the file
I have a collection of files ( *.zip, *.txt, *.tar.gz, *.doc, …etc ). These files reside within a path. I want to find all the files ( *.txt), then copy, only, the text files that contain specific words ( e.g LINUX/UNIX).