What is a fast command line way to switch between multiple directories for system administration? I mean, I can use pushd . and popd to toggle, but what if I want to store multiples and cycle through them, rather than permanently popping them off the bottom of the stack?
I want to download files from my office computer to my laptop.
I am trying to read user and server details from file tempo.txt and then check the disk space usage of the file system on that unix account using another script server_disk_space.sh.But I am not able to figure out why while loop is only working for first line and for loop is working fine.Please help me understand this.
When I ls -la, it prints many attributes. Something like this:
According to “Linux: The Complete Reference 6th Edition” (pg. 44), you can pipe only STDERR using the |& redirection symbols.
I have a large dictionary file with 300,000+ words in it and I’m trying to find all words with the vowels aeiou in that order and have only exactly 5 vowels. My current attempt does not seem to be working and for the life of me I don’t understand why.
I make heavy use of screen’s “log” command to log the output of a session to a file, when I am making changes in a given environment. I searched through tmux’s man page, but couldn’t find an equivalent. Is anyone aware of a similar feature in tmux, or do I have to write my own wrapper scripts to do this?
For example, I have git installed on my system.
But I don’t remember where I installed it, so which command is fit to find this out?
Edit 2020: I’ve been using the systemd-answer posted below for several years now, and am quite happy with it.
I’m trying to learn systemd services by trying to start xclock as a service; the service file is below