Questions tagged [command-line]
Questions about using the command-line interface (CLI).
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Trying to Flash ROM, asked to install "make' and C compiler. Probably not needed
I am trying to to Flash Rom on a Lenovo X-230 with Skulls, supposed to be a frequently used, straight forward Process.
I think my problem is the creation of a back up file, and how the CLI command is ...
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how do I change the way directories are shown in the terminal [duplicate]
when in the terminal it is showing the full path of the working directory which can take up most if not all of the screen width. How do I change it so that it only shows the name of the current ...
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Chose EFI boot on Mac but no Black & White screen to edit boot entry
I am new to this but I wanted to try Ubuntu on my Macbook Pro (2012). i followed a couple of similar instruction on the internet but when I got to the 'edit boot entry' to add "nomodeset" ...
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Rsync directory error
I wanted to copy files that are made 15 and more days ago.
Here is the code im currently using
rsync -RDa0P \
--files-from=<(find /vmail/folder1/ -mtime +15 -print0) \
. root@202.60.9.11:/...
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How do I edit this bash script, to only look for english subtitles
I have found and edited a bit in this script:
#!/bin/bash
#
# Version 1
#
# (C) 2016 Daniel Faust <hessijames@gmail.com>
#
# A BASH script that extracts subtitles from a matroska file.
#
# ...
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How to sort files into directories and subdirectories by name?
I'm new to ubuntu and also to the programming world, and I don't really know how to do this!
I have a folder with lots of files named as follows:
000_S_001_mpc_asd.json
000_S_001_mpc_asd.nii
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Alacritty command line doesnt work as intended after editing Alacritty config file
I've added config customization to Alacritty by adding this to my path and editing. I have spent the last 3 hours or so editing to a point where I am happy, however I have somehow introduced a ...
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How to create your own Linux package from scratch? [duplicate]
How do you create your own package in Linux, just like cd, ls, or any third party package?
All I know is how to create a .sh file, write a script in it and execute it using:
bash file_name
But in ...
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why my ubuntu 20.04 does not has a dock
I have been using ubuntu 18.04 and it has no dock so I upgraded my ubuntu to 20.04 but,
still, the dock doesn't show up I tried many ways but nothing worked in the tweak tool I don't have an extension ...
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Convert PDF to flipbook using the command line
I'm looking for a package & command to convert a PDF into a flipbook, which will then be printed on A4 paper. Do you have anything to recommend? Thanks!
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Terminal autocomplete doesn't work after some updates
I have been using Ubuntu for quite some time now. At first everything worked good. After some update that was released lately (probably less than 2 months), terminal does not autocomplete commands any ...
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How to raise alerts after a certain time frame from the time stamp of the file name?
#!/bin/bash
files=()
each_row=()
raw_file_names=()
directory=($(ls /home/cloudera/Downloads/20211006/*))
csv_file=(/home/cloudera/Downloads/log_20211006_1.log)
completed="Completed"
for i ...
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How to lock a partition with Ubuntu so that it won't be accidentally wiped during an OS installation?
I want to install Arch. I have no use CLI-installer. So I am scared that I delete my important data in a partition. Can I lock the partition for saving data?
I use ubuntu. Can I do it in ubuntu?
Or is ...
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How to keep only the word after the third underscore in 8th column?
I have a table (.tsv) like the following:
s__Methanobrevibacter_smithii k__Archaea p__Euryarchaeota c__Methanobacteria o__Methanobacteriales f__Methanobacteriaceae g__Methanobrevibacter ...
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ubuntu 21.04 - gnome-tweaks - themes don't stick after restart
I recently switched to ubuntu/gnome due to my having replaced my 1920x1200 laptop by a a new 4K-capable machine: the old setup that I copied over did not handle scaling to my satisfaction.
Pretty much ...
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Update Maven causes JAVA_HOME problem
I broke maven... I wanted to change from 3.6.0 to 3.8.1 and nothing is working yet
wget https://downloads.apache.org/maven/maven-3/3.8.1/binaries/apache-maven-3.8.1-bin.tar.gz
tar xf apache-maven-*....
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How to return from xdg-open within a shell script
I have some shell functions which allow me to quickly open something in my browser, for example:
issue () {
if [[ -z "$1" ]]
then
xdg-open "https://github.com/myname/...
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Can't kill defunct process or its parent. It never goes away
I have a defunct process that just simply won't go away, no matter what kill command I run. I have referred to What is a <defunct> process, and why doesn't it get killed? and several other ...
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Find the power consumption of the network card
Is there a tool to print the power consumption of the network card ?
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merging tab delimited txt files based on column (which is header ) in bash?
Im having two text files which contains million records , all the records are tab delimited , how we can merge these two files based on same header(column)?
file:1
LogEntryTime nameId ...
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Keep terminal output file open and appended indefinitely
This thread here discussed how to write terminal output to a file.
Suppose I run a Kafka consumer command in a terminal, using >> out.txt to store the streamed data. Once the data stream is ...
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How can I make the C++ compiler support template for STLin order to install hpctoolkit?
I am trying to install hpctoolkit using Spack. In order to do that, I executed :
git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git
cd spack/share/spack
source setup-env.sh
spack fetch -D hpctoolkit
spack ...
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tor command changed behavior
i'm using ubuntu 20.04.
i'm using the tor command for quiet some time now.
when i run it, i get:
$tor ...
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Sending Email from Comand Line in Ubuntu and specify Sender
Installed mailutils on my Ubuntu 20.x Server via sudo apt-get install mailutils. And did basic setup and can send mail from the comand line but run into a few issues.
a) One i need to be able to set ...
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How do I choose which monitor that my virtual console is on?
I turn on virtual console and when I do, it uses my first monitor when I want it to use my second monitor. I don't know how to select which monitor it goes on, I have also tried to do primary monitor ...
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ssh login halts partway through, and terminal freezes
When I try to log into my remote Ubuntu server, I log in successfully, but my terminal freezes, displaying only half of the welcome banner.
This is how my terminal looks when in freeze :
Welcome to ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 won't boot up
I've been trying to open my Ubuntu OS on a SBC device but it won't boot up and also it won't open terminal and when I run F7 to see what happen, I got this result attached here. Please what do I have ...
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Pattern Matching using Grep
I'm trying to find a specific value for my file heres a quick snippnet of it:
PRODUCT_TYPE_NAME,PRODUCT_CLASS_NAME,PRODUCT_SUB_CLASS_NAME,PRODUCT_MINOR_CLASS_NAME,PRODUCT_COUNTRY_ORIGIN_NAME,...
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How to make ubuntu know a terminal command for the entire machine? [duplicate]
I have a lot of projects. And for each project, I have two files in them: setup and serve.
Each developer follows these simple three steps to start coding:
git clone ...
./setup
./serve
The problem ...
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Running a software from a different folder
I want to run software for genomics data using Plink. My software is located in one folder and the required data files are in another folder. I can run easily if I put all files in the plink software ...
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How can I proceed if it is impossible to delete a (snap) readonly directory?
I want to execute a similar command to the following command from this post
sudo rmdir /usr/share/ghostscript/9.25/iccprofiles
The actual command is
sudo rmdir /snap/gimp/367/usr/share/ghostscript/9....
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Automatically adding bitmap fonts to font path
I've enabled bitmap fonts on Ubuntu 21.04 and they work fine. I did have this command in my bspwmrc file:
xset +fp /usr/local/share/fonts/misc
But every time I reloaded the bspwm config file this ...
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How Do I Update Ubuntu Linux Software Using Command Line? [duplicate]
I'm new and I want to know how do I update Ubuntu Linux for security and application fix/upgrades using the ssh command line? How can I install updates via the command line option?
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Sort a file according to a field starting with string
Suppose I have a file so structured
/home/zz/AUTHORBOOKS/Author-Chomsky-Who-Rules-the-World.epub
/home/zz/AUTHORBOOKS/Author-Cioran-Il-nulla.epub
/home/zz/BOOKS/Author-Artemis-Mathematica-Examples.nb
/...
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cant use “cargo, rustup and rustc” even after installing rust-lang
So I installed rust in my WSL (Ubuntu) as the official site says, by doing
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
I see the commands exist (cargo, rustc, rustup) in ~/.cargo/...
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How to pass .json file in a .sh script so that the Jenkins build will install/include it
When running some integration tests on Jenkins, I get this: "[Failed to read configuration file. Failed to open JSON file '/etc/ara_tsyn.json'.]"
Locally, I don't get this error cause i have ...
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Want a CLI interface to Transmission: transmission-remote, transmission-cli, transmission-remote-cli?
The Ubuntu 20.04 package transmission-cli says:
This package contains a (deprecated) stand-alone command-line client, transmission-remote to interface with transmission-daemon and tools to create, ...
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How to make system boot to text mode with high resolution and use startx to start KDE on Kubuntu?
I've tried a few suggestions, but have hit walls each time with various odd issues and would like a clear and working strategy to make Kubuntu 20.04 start to a higher resolution text mode console with ...
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Preserve colors in console of a Bash script output while logging
I would like to preserve colors, in console, of a Bash script output, while logging and echo it to console.
When I run a script with the following code, I lose colors in console.
LOG_FILE="Merge....
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unable to start a LXC container - lxc-start: lxccontainer.c: wait_on_daemonized_start: 804 Received container state “STOPPING” instead of “RUNNING”
Im very much new to LXC and LXD concepts. I was experimenting with LXC's by creating a containers and destroying them.
after some experiments, I tried to create a container to implement by task, was ...
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Why use tee with wget? Isn't it superfluous?
So I came across this code for downloading youtube-dl using wget which pipes into tee here: How can I update youtube-dl?
The code being:
wget -O - https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl | sudo ...
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How to get the output of two cat commands parallel to each other
If I run cat file1.txt, I have:
linux mint
ubuntu
cent-os
fedora
debian
kali linux
arch linux
kubuntu
open suse
deepin
parrot os
Then cat file2.txt gives:
linux mint
cent-os
fedora
kali linux
arch ...
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Ubuntu Slow and Unresponsive. Terminal takes about 20 seconds to load
This is Magma, I have been having issues with my Ubuntu system right from the instance I installed it.
My laptop Specifications are:
Processor: i7 9750h
GPU: 1660ti
Ram: 8 GB
Hard Disk 1 TB out of ...
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Argument List too Long for Everything besides default Terminal?
I am currently running Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS on VirtualBox, when ever I try to use the terminal in visual studio code on the VirtualBox, I get the following message,
user@ubuntu:~/Documents/test$ ls
bash:...
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How to copy files into a new file
How to copy files from one file to another file that has contents I want to keep? In other words, I want the contents of file1 to go in file2 but the info in file1 to be added to the existing stuff in ...
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how to use command line argument to find .txt file that have common name
I have multiple files in a directory called files. I have to read each .txt file from this directory:
abc123.txt
abc234.txt
abc345.txt
abc.txt
def123.txt
def234.txt
def345.txt
For example, when I ...
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Cannot run web-greeter irror showing
I installed web-greeter from the instruction mentioned here How can I install lightdm-webkit2-greeter?
The webgreeter installed succesfully but when i run it within my desktop session as mentioned ...
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Integrate coloured shapes and texts in ubuntu terminal
I am working on a project to simoly make linux shell on ubuntu. I want to change my font color for few commands and enclose my errors into red box whose height will be equal to errors height and ...
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Sed for replace a substring inside a string with a pattern
I am trying to replace a part of a pattern, such as, if I have col(3,B,14), after applying the sed command, I would like to get col(3,B,t14) which adds the t character to the third parameter in the ...
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Problem with xfce terminal during dialogs in command line installs
I am using terminal in Ubuntu Studio 20.4.2. During installs with apt in the terminal, if there is a dialog that requires a keyboard or mouse response, the response is not recognized and the apt ...
