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why is pid number so large and what is running `file` command?

I've got Ubuntu 20.04.2 on good hardware with Mate and all updated packages. The process identifiers (pid's) are in the 800,000's after only 7 days of uptime. how do I determine which process is ...
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How to add .sh extension to script files in Linux

I have a dozen of files without extention, and I need to add .sh to all the files are a script Bourne-Again shell. How do you achevie that without using sed, awk,... I located the files like so: file *...
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why more file_name command runs on an encrypted file? I thought "more file_name" command would ask for a password

----encrypts a file using gpg -c file_name. more file_name ---Outputs whats in the file. (Why the file is not secured)
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file: symbol lookup error: file: undefined symbol: magic_setparam

My file command is broken. $ file file: symbol lookup error: file: undefined symbol: magic_setparam $ which file /usr/local/bin/file $ ldd $(which file) linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffc43fd000) ...
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pipe to file command [duplicate]

I wanted to know the bitness of a certain software (omc), so I ran first which omc file /usr/bin/omc and that gave me all information I needed. Before telling my colleagues, I wanted to shorten it ...
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creating a file with the content of a folder

Is it possible to create a file which contains the information (the contents) of a certain folder? For example: cat /folder >> file I also tried touch /folder >> file I should add that ...
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Why doesn't the command "ls | file" work?

I've been studying about the command line and learned that | (pipeline) is meant to redirect the output from a command to the input of another one. So why does the command ls | file doesn't work? ...
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