Why should ‘Character Classes’ be preferred over ‘Character Ranges’ In Shell (Bash)?
The Linux Command Line (Book – page count 47) says:
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Is there a way to see details of all the threads that a process has in Linux?
For Windows, I think Process Explorer shows you all the threads under a process.
Why a long delay after command not found?
Often when I mistype a command such as ls (e.g. I hit ENTER before I type ‘s’) there is a long (~2s) delay after the terminal displays:
Limiting processes to not exceed more than 10% of CPU usage
I operate a Linux system which has a lot of users but sometimes an abuse occurs; where a user might run a single process that uses up more than 80% of the CPU/Memory.
Is it possible to reference the most recently modified file in a command line argument?
I frequently download PDF files with heinous numeric file names from my browser. These automatically go into ~/Downloads. Ideally I would like to just be able to open these files with:
How does the “tail” command’s “-f” parameter work?
$ tail -f testfile the command is supposed to show the latest entries in the specified file, in real-time right? But that’s not happening. Please correct me, if what I intend it to do is wrong… I created a new file “aaa” and added a line of text and closed it. then issued this command … Read more
How to asynchronously launch external program from cli and discard its output?
I’m writing a simple desktop initiation script which waits for disk idle, and then launches next external program (like Firefox, Skype or conky) using &, like:
How to cause kernel panic with a single command?
Is it possible to cause a kernel panic with a single command line?
How to set shell to wrap words for long commands?
I connect to a Slackware server. When a command is longer than the size of the putty window, the line continues in the same line, and the start of the command disappears as I continue adding to the same command, just putting a “<” at the beginning of the line.