On the bash command-line, ↑ gives me the previous command. On the command-lines in ipython or matlab, when I type a few characters, ↑ gives me the previously entered command starting with those characters. How can I enable exactly this behaviour in bash?
If I have the following shell script
There are limits set for the arithmetic evaluation capabilities of the bash shell. The manual is succinct about this aspect of shell arithmetic but states:
for i in {1..40} do echo $i done I got {1..40} and I would like to have something like 1 2 3 and so on so I can use the variable i inside a command’s parameter. Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help … Read more
I’m reading “BASH pocket guide of Oreilly”.
It said:
I am trying the contents of an array into a file with each element of the array in a new line in the file.
For example if I want to create a file and enter text in one line I can redirect the output into a file with the use of the > operator:
In Bash, when specifying command line arguments to a command, what characters are required to be escaped?
I want to make a shell alias that starts a certain program and also changes the title of the terminal to the name of the program. How can I do that?