Is there any tool in Solaris UNIX (so no GNU tool available) to subtract dates? I know that in Linux we have gawk that can subtract one date from another. But in Solaris the maximum we have is nawk (improved awk) which cannot perform date calculations. Also I cannot use perl.
I was just running a few commands in a terminal and I started wondering, does Unix/Linux take shortcuts when running piped commands?
I’m looking for an ASCII art generator (text is preferred, but images will do too) in the sl style, but with text instead of trains. Any suggestion?
Sometimes, I need to check only the directories not files. Is there any option with the command ls? Or is there any utility for doing that?
I have a 4GB SD card with some family pictures on it that I need to recover. When I insert the card into my card reader, it shows up as an unknown 32MB device (as /dev/sde) and cannot be mounted. When inserting back into the camera (a Nikon D60), it says the cards needs to be formatted (as does inserting it into a Windows machine). I want to recover all of the pictures on the card (there were others before the family pictures) because I don’t know how many I took or their exact sizes (but I believe they were all JPEGs). The card should be formatted as a FAT32 filesystem.
With an increasing number of archive/compression file formats, is there a single free/open-source command line tool to rule them all? Perhaps something with a consistent / unified set of flags? (note my friendly implicit reference to tar)
In Windows, if you type LIST DISK using DiskPart in a command prompt it lists all physical storage devices, plus their size, format, etc. What is the equivalent of this in Linux? Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue … Read more
Why does this happen? Everything else printable with uname is shown.
I am not looking into fixing this. Even the manual page of uname says that it’s a common output.
sponge reads standard input and writes it out to the specified file.
Unlike a shell redirect, sponge soaks up all its input before writing
the output file. This allows constructing pipelines that read from
and write to the same file.
I’ve seen in many places used install -d to create directories and install -c to copy a file. Why not use mkdir and cp? Is there an advantage in using install?
