I’d like to essentially tar/gz a directory on a remote machine and save the file to my local computer without having to connect back into my local machine from the remote one. Is there a way to do this over SSH? The tar file doesn’t need to be stored on the remote machine, only on the local machine. Is this possible?
set and shopt are both shell builtins that control various options. I often forget which options are set by which command, and which option sets/unsets (set -o/+o, shopt -s/-u). Why are there two different commands that seemingly do the same thing (and have different arguments to do so)? Is there any easy way/mnemonic to remember which options go with which command?
The following examples show that a newline is added to a here-string.
Why is this done?
The environment variable for the bash prompt is called PS1 (usually set in ~/.bashrc). What does PS1 stand for? Is there a PS2?
Apparently, the shellshock Bash exploit CVE-2014-6271 can be exploited over the network via SSH. I can imagine how the exploit would work via Apache/CGI, but I cannot imagine how that would work over SSH?
I want to do a bash script that measures the launch time of a browser for that I am using an html which gets the time-stamp on-load in milliseconds using JavaScript.
I find myself doing the following almost every day
Is there a way to pipe the output of a command and direct it to the stdout as well?
I used to believe that the appropriate way of breaking the lines in a list is command1 && command2 It turned out that it isn’t so , one doesn’t need $ [ $(id -u) -eq 1000 ] && > echo yes yes The same works with pipes | the same way. The bash man page … Read more