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find and rsync?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I want to be able to search for files over 14 days and over 10k and than rsync those found files to a destination.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, find, pipe, rsync, shell Leave a comment

What are the readline word separators?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

When I delete a “word” in Bash, it will stop at certain characters like _ and /. For example, if I type

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, readline Leave a comment

Why does the following way not change core file limit size?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

To solve the problem in https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/446428/674, I followed https://stackoverflow.com/a/17483998/156458, but it doesn’t set core file limit size?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, core-dump, ulimit Leave a comment

Is GNOME Terminal a type of non-login shell?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

According to the answer to What are login and non-login shells? on Ask Ubuntu, GNOME Terminal is a type of non-login shell.
As pointed out in the excellent book, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 6th Edition:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, environment-variables, login, shell Leave a comment

bash 4.3 “multiple dot” commands fails silently on Fedora

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I just noted this on bash 4.3; exact version number is 4.3.42(1)-release (x86-redhat-linux-gnu).

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, fedora Leave a comment

Find pattern and move

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I’m wondering if anybody knows how to find a pattern and then move it to a different location.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, find Leave a comment

Why can’t we execute a list of commands as different user without sudo?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

This question has been asked in a different way in other forums. But there has not been a decent explanation why you can’t do the below in bash.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, su, sudo Leave a comment

Command substitution: splitting on newline but not space

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I know I can solve this problem several ways, but I’m wondering if there is a way to do it using only bash built-ins, and if not, what is the most efficient way to do it.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, command-substitution Leave a comment

Are there problems with hyphens in functions, aliases, and executables?

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

In my testing (in Bash and Z Shell), I saw no problems with defining functions or aliases or executable shell scripts which have hyphens in the name, but I’m not confident that this will be okay in all shells and in all use cases.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, csh, ksh, shell, zsh Leave a comment

History substitution fails when implemented in shell script

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

Output 09_03_2016

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, history-expansion, shell-script Leave a comment
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    remove libwacom2 worked for me as well

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