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A shell is software that lets users interact with the operating system, usually by typing at a command-line.

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I was working with a command like this: ssh another_host <<EOF set -x command_a command_b run_framework command_c ... EOF The odd thing was that only commands up to and including run_framework ...
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I’m looking for a minimalistic 64-bit replacement shell for Windows XP, Vista, or 7. Any ideas?
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For some reason, I cannot get my system to keep my Bash history after a reboot. Here are the relevant sections of my ~/.bashrc file: shopt -s histappend PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; updateWindowTitle' ...
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Problem I'm using oh-my-zsh and Antigen to manage my Zsh. Sometimes I will accidentally enter a wrong/failed command into Zsh and it is very annoying when the zsh-autosuggestions plugin throws up ...
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How can I use Awk to match multiple lines and then concatenate other fields? 1 Gen 1 75 1 Gen 1:1 10 1 Gen 1:1 11 2 Exo 1:1-2 13 2 Exo 1:1-2 14 3 Num 1:1-4 ...
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I've got login to another server where shell configurations are not like I would want. For example I don't see my username and CWD on prompt, and when I press arrow key, instead of giving last entered ...
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I am looking to disable MOTD on my Debian 12 systems. I updated my sshd_config file to not display MOTD but it is still showing up. Is it possible it is coming from another module and how can I ...
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I want to write a /bin/sh shell script which will handle any files matching a wildcard. It's easy to handle 1 or more matching files. However, I'm finding it awkward to handle the case of 0 matching ...
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I have a list of files (builddir/foo.s builddir/foo.i builddir/foo.ii) that happens to come from brace expansion of builddir/foo.{s,i{,i}} . I would like to symlink them into the current directory ...
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code example: my PWD = /aa/bb/cc/dd dir= `dirname "$(PWD)"` output = `basename "${dir}"` dir variable outputs correctly: /aa/bb/cc desired output variable: cc error I'm getting: /bin/sh: 1: Syntax ...
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I'm trying to create a symbolic link on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) it says: me@laptop:~/PHPUnit$ ls assertions.php LICENSE PHPUnit README.markdown build.xml package.xml ...
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How can I sort the output of ls by last modified date?
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Is it possible to have dropdown autocomplete select options in the terminal with ZSH or Bash as shown in the image below? Here the regions(i.e. ap-northeast-1, ap-northeast-1 etc) are predefined
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i have been getting very frustrated lately since the readline functionality has been removed from MacOSX and Tab Auto-Completion doesn't work anymore. So i was wondering if anyone knew a good ...
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In folders with shortcuts (and junctions) I oftenly like to have mid-sized icons, sorted names and grouping by type. Alas, Explorer oftenly forgets these settings once I made them manually. The ...
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