Why shouldn’t someone use passwords in the command line?
Why do people fear writing passwords in the command line?
command-line
A command line utility to visualize how fast a file is growing?
I want to grok how fast a particular file is growing.
Does a shortcut for executing a series of commands in bash history exist?
Suppose I have the following trivial example in my history:
Is it possible to reverse a command in the bash shell?
I was wondering if there is a (simple) possibility to redo/reverse a command that was executed in the bash shell? (to make it undone)
Printing unique lines
Is there some better solution for printing unique lines other than a combination of sort and uniq?
Copying files from command line to clipboard
In a GUI file manager it is possible to select a few files, press Ctrl-C (which supposedly copies come info about the files to clipboard), then navigate to another folder and press Ctrl-V, which will then copy the files into that directory.
How can I run a specific line as a command in a text file?
Sometimes I need to exec a single command which is in a shell script.
Why do some commands ‘hang’ the terminal until they’ve finished?
Sometimes you run a program from the terminal, say, lxpanel†. The terminal won’t drop you back to the prompt, it’ll hang. You can press Ctrl+C to get back to the prompt, but that will kill lxpanel. However, pressing Alt+F2 (which pops up a window to take a command) and running lxpanel works gracefully.
Check ping statistics without stopping
Is there a way to tell ping to show its usual termination statistics without stopping the execution?
How to hide commands typed in a Linux shell?
Is there a way to hide what I’m typing in a shell, so the terminal doesn’t echo my keystrokes, while still keeping the output of the command?