How can I move files by type recursively from a directory and its sub-directories to another directory?
What would be a good way to move a file type from a directory and all of its sub-directories?
command-line
How does one extract a command’s exit status into a variable?
I started learning Bash a couple of days ago.
Remove ^M character from log files
Remove ^M character from log files.
^x^y unix trick for all instances in last command?
One of my favorite Unix tricks is ^x^y, which will take the last command and replace the first instance of “x” with “y”. However, I’m wondering if a similar trick works to replace all instances of “x” with “y” in the last command?
syntax_highlight | lpr
Does anyone know of a simple way to produce the PostScript corresponding to a syntax-highlighted version of a source file that can be piped directly to a PostScript printer?
How can I remove the BOM from a UTF-8 file?
I have a file in UTF-8 encoding with BOM and want to remove the BOM. Are there any linux command-line tools to remove the BOM from the file?
How to move the first x files
I have this huge folder with thousands of unordered files. Is it feasible to move the first 5000s to a subfolder via the mv command? For now I move files with
Do command line options take an equals sign between option name and value?
Just using kubectl as an example, I note that
How to execute consecutive commands from history?
Suppose I want to execute a sequence of four commands that I have executed before. If the first one is 432 in the command-history, then I could do:
Are Linux utilities smart when running piped commands?
I was just running a few commands in a terminal and I started wondering, does Unix/Linux take shortcuts when running piped commands?