Questions tagged [bash]
Bash is a free shell for Unix-like operating systems from the GNU Project.
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When should I put configurations into .bashrc vs into. .bash_profile?
I was looking at Questin 9152: Why doesn’t my path update now?. Which customizations should go into my ~/.bashrc file vs. into my ~/.bash_profile file?
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How can I prepend a line number and tab to each line of a text file?
How can I append a line number and tab to the beginning of each line of a text file?
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How to remove a symbolic link to a directory?
I am using Ubuntu 8.10, Bash and I made a symbolic link with the following command:
ln -s ../test5
I want to remove it now but my rm fails:
rm -Rf test5/
rm: cannot remove `test5/`: Not a directory
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Why doesn't my path update *now*?
I recently installed the newest Qt SDK and I went ahead and added it to my PATH inside of my ~/.bash_profile.
I don't see the change. I can source ~/.bash_profile but then my path is twice as long, ...
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Save me from gibberish terminal
While logged in to a remote ssh session, sometimes I do cat to the wrong file (a binary or a diretory) and the display converts to gibberish. The only way out is to close the terminal and open a new ...
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Rename a group of files with one command
If I have a group of files with a .htm extention, how can I rename them all to .html?
mv *.htm *.html
does not work.
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Can the output of one command be piped to two other commands?
How can I pipe the output of one command to the input of two other commands simultaneously?
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How can I search the bash history and rerun a command?
Can I search history in bash and run the result?
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Pause all but x CPU-intensive tasks
I've got about 50 folders of data to process, and I've got a ruby script that processes a folder's files (which folder it processes is based on a .yml configuration file). And a computer with four ...
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.profile in Mac OS X?
I have set my terminal preferences to execute:
set -o vi
at startup. The problem is I don't get that command executed when open a new terminal tab.
Is there something like .profile in OS X where ...
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How do I detach a process from Terminal, entirely?
I use Tilda (drop-down terminal) on Ubuntu as my "command central" - pretty much the way others might use GNOME Do, Quicksilver or Launchy.
However, I'm struggling with how to completely detach a ...
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How to prevent clearing of terminal output when I "exit" an SSH session?
This is the situation: I open a terminal in Ubuntu, and do ssh host-1, which works as expected. From host-1, I do ssh host-2, which again works fine and connects me to host-2. From host-2 I do, for ...
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