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A suite of essential system utilities for Linux.

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I have a tsv with a lot of columns and I'm trying to output a concise version of those columns formatted to 80 characters wide. I figured column would help wrap this for me, but the c flag seems to ...
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Linux Mint 20.3 lsblk -V lsblk from util-linux 2.34 Let's find an explanation for the ambiguous behavior of the lsblk utility applied with the -E option. Here is the output without applying the -E ...
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On Msys2 env.: $ cd /c/msys64/mingw64/lib/ $ ln -s libz.dll.a libzlib.dll.a But confusingly why ln command did copy instead of linking it symbolically ? $ ls -l libz* -rw-r--r-- 1 abdu None 108700 ...
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Help me understand the logic, please - from whereis man: OPTIONS -b Search for binaries. But when i use this it returns path to dir: kl@debian:~$ whereis -b postfix postfix: /usr/...
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Trying to figure out how to include several rename commands in one shell script that I will save as a cron job. What I would like to accomplish is renaming different words and also suppress error ...
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Overview I'm attempting to execute commands as a different user without using quotation marks as well as making sure the executed command isn't inheriting environment from the parent shell. runuser ...
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For 35 years I've been watching the more command work like this: when specifying multiple files, and without any options, it displays a header and the file contents as follows (most easily seen for ...
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Could you suggest how to use rename.ul under Ubuntu 22.04 ? Many thanks ! Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.10.102.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64) * Documentation: https://...
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column is available in packages util-linux and bsdmainutils. Both these packages are installed in Linux Mint 20.2 $ type column column is /usr/bin/column column is /bin/column Both these column are ...
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I am confused by the output of the more program under linux. When creating a file which contains only a single letter (except for special letters like ä which work fine), more does not report the file'...
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Does logger(1) command belong to util-linux? it is not shown in https://manpages.debian.org/testing/util-linux/index.html, but in https://manpages.debian.org/testing/bsdutils/logger.1.en.html.
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I have a running Linux 4.19 amd64 system with two PCIe SSDs that I'd like to clear, test, reformat and put in use again. All of the data has already been moved away. I've tried to trim/discard blocks ...
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$ rename 's/./ /g' * $ ls -l total 6832616 -rw-r--r-- 1 jboo jboo 0 Sep 28 01:44 -rw-r--r-- 1 jboo jboo 43361681 Sep 28 01:44 -rw-r--r-- 1 jboo jboo 47499946 Sep 28 01:44 -rw-r--r-- 1 jboo ...
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When I run losetup --list (or just losetup) to get a list of the loopback devices on my system, the output doesn't seem to be in any meaningful order: 0 $ losetup --list NAME SIZELIMIT OFFSET ...
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I am currently having problems with util-linux's look in combination with German umlauts (ä, ö, ü). For testing purposes I set LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8. Consider german.dic: Aachen Rindfleisch in UTF-8 ...
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