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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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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Is there an official (re)source where is list it all the categories of commands with their respective set of commands?
Just being curious: Question 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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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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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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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 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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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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How to determine from the lspci output how cards and how many ports are on a card?
I need to write a script to count how many 2 or 4 port HBA cards we have in each of our servers. I'm running lspci on each of the servers, however, none of the documents I've read so far is telling me ...
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