The command-line interface (CLI) is a way of interacting with the system and software by typing text commands into a terminal.
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bzcat to delete compressed file
By default, bzcat (or, equivalently, bzip2 -dc or bunzip2 -c) will keep the source (compressed file) and not delete it. Is there a flag or other means (besides thereafter manually rming the file) to ...
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Crontab not running a script
I have set my crontab to run 2 script.
the first script is not running.
I set up on the crontab -e not sudo crontab -e
The error i have is this
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Copy file to External Hard Disk
My UBUNTU (desktop part) do not boot completely because of low disk;
When I log-in to terminal by username and password, try to copy some file from /home/UserName/Desktop to my external hard disk by ...
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Unity progress bar for gnome-terminal?
One of my favorite features of unity is the progress bar the launcher overlays on the icons for various programs like the file manager, or firefox. Gnome-terminal does not have a progress bar. What do ...
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Using QQ: How can I make Byobu the default terminal [duplicate]
I really like the Byobu terminal better than the default Gnome terminal that is installed with Ubuntu.
How can I make Byobu the default terminal - for example, when I hit control/alt-t I'd like to ...
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How to copy folders thru terminal [duplicate]
I want to copy all my hard disk on /dev/sda1 to my external hard disk on /dev/sdb1
but thru terminal because when i'm using Nautilus the computer freezes donno why
i read this article but it explains ...
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I cannot acces terminal in chrome os to reinstall Ubuntu?
I installed Ubuntu & upgrade after to 13.04 , but after restart went again in chrome os.
After that I discovered that both was o the same partition. What I did :
1. I restart again, and try in ...
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How to install Ubuntu 12.04 from terminal/tty1?
I'm not very familiar with Ubuntu, hope to not bother you too much.
I had Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my HP Pavillion dv7-2005eg, after not being able to fix the Intel/AMD hybrid graphics disaster in 12.10.
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Is there any way to repair Terminal?
My terminal in Ubuntu 11.04 LTS does not recognize any locations(even copy and pasted) and cannot open any file(even copy and pasted commands). Can anyone help me find a way to repair this?
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Guake no longer showing desktop when opening
It used to show the desktop as a background when I open it, but for some reason it's just overlying (so the top most window is now the background). Is there a setting somewhere to prevent this?
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How to create multi users account?
I want to create multi users with generate password and print out as text file, how can I write in shell script? (Ex: Create 5 users, password 10 length)
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How can I enable history completion by program in terminator as guake has it?
In guake I can type ls UP-ARROW and it will show ls /home/blah for example. In terminator using up arrow after typing ls just brings me to the command I entered prior. Is there any way to enable this ...
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How to revoke partly executed commands?
After two weeks of no-problemo ubuntuing, my sound was gone. I looked for help and found this answer.
I entered the huge wall of code and hit "enter" and "y" a few times. While the terminal was doing ...
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How is robust terminal emulation achieved in Ubuntu?
My question is using only Ubuntu and/or open source components, how is full terminal emulation with keyboard mapping, logging, and printing achieved in Ubuntu without purchasing a product? By using ...
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Sublime Text console call not returning until it's closed
The problem is that whenever I call subl from the console, the command line won't return until I've closed Sublime out completely. If I do subl -h for help, it says that subl -w will wait for the ...
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Close current tab firefox using terminal
I have firefox already running on my system, and now in minimised state. What I want is to close the current tab running in firefox. How can I do this by simply using commands in terminal?
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Configuring gmusicbrowser to copy now playing to X clipboard
I'm trying to get gmusicbrowser to copy song information to my X.org clipboard with the Now Playing plugin. For on song change, in the plugin's configuration, I have
echo "%a - %t (from %l, %y)" | ...
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How did I do this? - File content removed!
first of all, thank you for your contribute to this forum! I switched to ubuntu a few months ago for working reasons and these pages are a great help!
Now, getting to the point:
I was trying to count ...
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How can I customize the terminal window (in ccsm maybe) of this particular “filename.desktop” file
This filename.desktop does nothing else but to run a python script in a terminal window (this connects to the Internet - keep alive thread).
Since this is a quite commonly used window, I'd like its ...
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How can I get back to a login screen after a freeze?
I have to manually shut down and to enter my SDA crypt pass and my user pass over again.
How do I force the poweroff without having to hit the power button, or get back to a login screen. Nobody has ...
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FLV Metadata Editor GUI
Are there any programs for Ubuntu 13.04 that allow the user to edit the metadata of FLV videos? I would prefer a graphical user interface. Command-lines are fine if that is all that exists.
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How can I join an ubuntu 12.10 client to join a windows domain (server 2008)
In My office am using windows server 2008 recently am install ubuntu 12.10 in my offz its really awesome but Little bit am struggling about few configurations and settings... now also am struggling ...
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How can i minimize the window through command lin? [duplicate]
I would like to know how would minimize the opened window through terminal.
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Run a shell script as another user that has no password
I would like to run a script from the main ubuntu shell as a different user that has no Password.
I have full sudo priviledges, so I tried this:
sudo su -c "Your command right here" -s /bin/sh ...
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How to make everything on stdout be read aloud (using espeak)?
I've got the eSpeak TTS system up and running, and I like it quite a bit.
I'm wondering, is there a way to pipe EVERYTHING that gets printed to STDOUT to espeak? I'm trying to set up a system without ...
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How do I find out where are command line commands installed? [duplicate]
I just installed apt-get install a few commands, but where are these things saved?
thanks
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Connecting to wifi on ubuntu 10.04 through terminal
When I tried to use the terminal commands as shown below
Open the terminal.
Type ifconfig wlan0 and press Enter. You will not see any output in the terminal, as this command just turns your ...
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Connect to WiFi network through Ubuntu terminal
I am using my WiFi network adapter on the laptop to connect to the internet on Ubuntu 10.04.
I have tried the following steps and got the below messages on the Ubuntu terminal.
Please let me know what ...
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Most important commands to know? [duplicate]
Got myself into trouble today - put rhythm box into party mode and I could get it back.
So I was stuck.
I hit ctrl alt del thinking that something like task manager would come up so I could kill ...
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Terminal Vim no longer starts after upgrading from 12.04 -> 12.10 -> 13.04: undefined symbol: init_hashlib
When I attempt to run Vim from a terminal, I get the following error:
vim: symbol lookup error: vim: undefined symbol: init_hashlib
I did some searching and the general consensus is that this is ...
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bash permissions
My friend was trying to tighten up security on his ubuntu server and changed the permissions on bash. He logged out, and now the computer won't let him log back in.
The server is an off-site server ...
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Need Help Studying for Linux+ Cert
A user (Bob)accidentally makes a subdirectory (bobsdir) in their Home directory and try to remove it but when they use the "rmdir \bobsfile" command they get "No Such Directory".
the Answer to the ...
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Open terminal from nautilus by right click
I use nautilus as my default file manager. Is there any way that I can customize it so that right click anywhere in the window gives an option to open the current directory in terminal. I have seen ...
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System Monitoring Tools For Ubuntu
I am looking for System Monitoring tools which are GUI and Cli or Web Based which include Basic Functions such as
CPU Usage
Ram Usage
Swap Usage
Disk Usage ( Space / I/O )
Heat Monitoring
I know ...
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Connect to remote drive (University computer)
To connect to my university drive, the instructions on their website say:
Open a terminal
Type the following, to mount your P: drive to /mnt:
mount -t cifs -o ...
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tcl command somehow not properly installed? [closed]
here is ubuntu 12.10 (pearOS) and there seems to be tcl-package
double in container of ubuntu (2 different versions).
I made sudo apt-get install tcl tclx
quite normally (need this for sguild ...
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URxvt has lags in Ubuntu 13.04
I use urxvt as my default terminal and zsh as default shell. I use this two tools everywhere, but after today upgrade from ubuntu 12.10 to Ubuntu 13.04 I got some lags in term.
Lags means - when I ...
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Did I just delete everything with find -exec mv?
Tried to figure this out on my own. Here's the command I used in the terminal:
find . -name "*.jpg" -exec mv {} pictures \;
I did not create a directory named pictures first. What happened was a ...
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How to use readline to insert a predetermined string onto the command line with a shortcut when using Bash?
Is it possible to have an arbitrary amount of text placed next to the cursor on the command-line? I have heard that it is possible using Bash, but I am not sure how to accomplish it. It seems to be ...
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gedit opens different window though it should not
It's a follow-up of Why does gedit keep randomly opening new instances when opening files from nautilus? On Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity:
I double click on a text file on the desktop or through Nautilus. ...
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How to tail output of program started from crontab that prints to stdout?
I have a program, say
#!/bin/bash
while ( true ){
echo 'hello'
sleep 10
}
Which is started from the crontab like so
0 0 1 1 *
I can list this running process using a command like
ps aux ...
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Can't display IP address with a file.desktop in Ubuntu 13.04
Why this command doesn't run ? :
Exec=gnome-terminal --command "ifconfig -a | grep 'inet adr' | sed /127/d | awk '{print $2}' "
I must do before: chmod 700 on my "file.desktop" and clic on it to ...
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Make a program run in a terminal
What command should I give to make a program run in a (new) terminal window?
Background: I want to add another right-click option to Peazip which will pass the selected par2 file to the (installed) ...
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Unable to run *.sh files by directly double clicking the file in 13.04 [duplicate]
Facing this issue after upgrading to Raring Ringtail.
Before I could run .sh files by directly double clicking the file.
But now it goes directly for editing instead of opening up a pop window which ...
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Keyboard shortcut for “open a terminal here” in Nemo
How can I make a keyboard shortcut for "Open a terminal here" in Nemo?
I am finding the "Files" manager formerly known as nautilus that comes with Ubuntu 13.04 to be too crippled to bother using ...
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Term for “Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.” dialogue?
Sometimes I see the following dialog.
Configuration file `/etc/...'
==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
What ...
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How to generate 4 WEP keys with linux commands? [closed]
I have a sagem router. this router is able to generate 4 WEP keys from a given passphrase.
Example:
Passphrase: "hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha"
key1: ...
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How to generate WEP keys from a passphrase
I have a passphrase and I want to generate a WEP keys from it.
Are there a linux command for that?
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Problem at opening NASA World Wind. I get a terminal error (java problem)
The program is zipped and these are the instruccions in README file:
2) cd to the World Wind release folder.
3) chmod +x run-demo.bash
4) ./run-demo.bash ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 near-fresh install: 'ps aux' gets stuck on anacron
I've just finished an install of Ubuntu 13.04 onto a brand new PC, and noticed that executing 'ps aux' in a terminal causes it to hang half-way through displaying a list of the processes:
$ ps aux
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