Questions tagged [command]
One or a set of directives issued in the *nix environment to get information, change the state of something or to execute something. In other words: To gain an objective.
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Cancel just second command of bash logical AND operator [duplicate]
It often happens that I have some long task running, like compiling a program, running tests or copying large archives. Once I am done with whatever else I was doing, I want to leave the computer ...
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Arch Linux - rsync succeeds but prsync does not work
I am moving a large number of files from one PC to another. The two PCs are in 192.168.0.0/24. I started by ryncing all music I had on my source PC to my new PC.
> rsync -P --recursive 192.168.0....
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Unix or Linux command to compare binary files [duplicate]
I'm looking for a command that compares binary files.
Of course, I know about diff, but it is not very good at binaries.
I have two files from a error-prone source (scratched dvd) which should be ...
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Is there an official (re)source where is list it all the categories of commands with their respective set of commands?
Just being curious:
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Is there an official (re)source where is list it all the categories of commands with their respective set of commands?
Something like Linux Foundation for Filesystem ...
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Kill current bash shell and start a new one with some command
is it possible to kill/exit the current bash shell and start a new one with some command?
Something like
kill -9 $PPID && bash -c echo 'I started new!'
which does not work obviously.
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How to find the python command in a shell script?
Let's suppose that you have a super python 2&3 one-liner that you need to use in a shell script.
On system A the python command works, but on system B you have to use python3, on system C you need ...
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cpulimit: detect failure / exit status in Linux
I'm using cpulimit in a Bash script to run a certain command (ffmpeg) with a limited CPU usage, but I want to know if the command fails. But when the command(ffmpeg) fails with any error, cpulimit ...
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Understanding the concepts of commands, processes and namespaces
I am not a strong linux user, but I want to better understand the material in this post here which talks about linux namespaces
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44666700/unshare-pid-bin-bash-fork-...
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Command to know the speed between mainboard and HDD/SSD
I want to know the speed of data transfer between a HDD or SSD and the
mainboard. It through a command. If is possible through a GUI, it is accepted too
Goal:
I want to do a comparison of speeds ...
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editing files in batches from a huge amount of data
I ran into an issue:
I have folders with usually 50-150 text files, which I need to modify.
sed is not an option, since the changes cannot be automated
(sometimes "ss" need to be changed, ...
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What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha224sum|sed 's/\W//g'"
I am trying to register on the arch linux forum and am asked for the output of this command:
date -u +%V$(uname)|sha224sum|sed 's/\W//g'
Why am I being asked this and is it safe to run? I am unable ...
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What does alt + PrtSc+ REISB do? [duplicate]
I remember hearing this as a safe way to reboot a frozen system but never looked into what it actually does. What does this command do?
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Setting Maximum Packet Size up to which GRO can combine in the Linux Kernel
In a Linux environment, Generic Receive Offload (GRO) helps improve network performance by merging multiple packets into a larger one, reducing CPU overhead.
Now we want to control the maximum size of ...
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Are ethers, rarp, plipconfig and slattach commands deprecated and what are their replacements?
There are 10 networking tools in net-tools Debian package (and also other distros, probably the package is named differently):
arp (ip n)
ifconfig (ip)
mmi-tool (ethtool)
nameif (ip link)
netstat (ss)...
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What happens if sudo rm -rf /* is done in WSL?
NOTE: DO NOT USE THIS COMMAND UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING
From what I've find on the internet, the sudo rm -rf /* command wipes out everything in the linux system. If this command is run on WSL, ...
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