I have a directory that I am trying to clean out that contains both files and subdirectories. What I am trying to do is simple: move all the files into another directory, but leave all the sub-directories as they are.
On the command line, I can redirect or pipe output of a command to a file or another command using the > or | operator after the command. I have come across a less standard situation that I would like to redirect the output to a file, but I don’t seem to have the oppurtunity to redirect it:
My current screen session has 12 open windows on it. It’s been running for weeks… I know I executed an ImageMagick convert command in one of these 12 screen windows sometime last week… is there any way I can easily search through the Bash history of all 12 instances, without closing them or running history | grep convert in all 12 screens?
According to the bash man page:
Maybe I’m overlooking something but is there a way to get your current bash history for the current session you are using like
Why do people fear writing passwords in the command line?
Sometimes I misunderstand the syntax of a command:
I am trying to write a bash script in a file that would, when run start pinging a host until it becomes available, when the host becomes reachable it runs a command and stops executing, I tried writing one but the script continues pinging until the count ends,
I want my shell scripts to fail whenever a command executed with them fails.
This is the data what I want to sort. But sort treats the numeric to string, the data it no sorted as I expected.