How to execute consecutive commands from history?
Suppose I want to execute a sequence of four commands that I have executed before. If the first one is 432 in the command-history, then I could do:
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Daemonize a process in shell?
http://linuxg.net/how-to-transform-a-process-into-a-daemon-in-linux-unix/ gives an example of daemonizing a process in bash:
Find out what scripts are being run by bash at login
After starting a bash terminal, I noticed that the PATH variable contains duplicate entries. My terminal starts a login shell, so ~/.bash_profile is sourced, followed by ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc. Only in ~/.profile do I create the paths entries which are duplicated.
What is a fast command line way to switch between multiple directories for system administration?
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?
Piping STDERR vs. STDOUT
According to “Linux: The Complete Reference 6th Edition” (pg. 44), you can pipe only STDERR using the |& redirection symbols.
How to make a variable from a subshell available in the parent shell
I’ve written a quick-and-dirty script to time some reports from a web service:
How to debug and fix slow autocomplete in bash?
After a recent update (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS), TAB complete on the command line is slow. After entering a partial command (e.g evi [TAB]) or partial filename (e.g. evince somedocu[TAB]) the shell, sometimes though not always, hangs for several seconds.
Forward SIGTERM to child in Bash
I have a Bash script, which looks similar to this:
How to properly escape exclamation points in bash?
Today, I was caught redhanded while attempting to code golf a password generator for Twitter.
How to read first and last line from cat output?
I have text file. Task – get first and last line from file after