Oct 11, 2017 · The dot-slash, ./, is a relative path to something in the current directory. The dot is the current directory and the slash is a path delimiter. When you give the command touch ./a you say …

Jan 28, 2011 · The corresponding gunzip and bunzip2 commands can be used to uncompress said archive, or you can just use flags on the tar command to perform the uncompression. If you are …

I am using 32-bit Red Hat Linux in my VM. I want to boot it to command-line mode, not to GUI mode. I know that from there I can switch to GUI mode using startx command. How do I switch back to comm...

Depending on your needs, syslogd might be another tool to peruse. The command theuser@tetrad:~$ logger This message is sent to syslog will log the message with the facility user.notice. With many …

If the file system is mounted, it can be used to expand the size of the mounted file system, assuming the kernel and the file system supports on-line resizing. (Modern Linux 2.6 kernels will support on-line …

Aug 10, 2017 · I have a serial port device that I would like to test using linux command line. I am able to use stty and echo for sending commands to serial port, but when device responds I have no way of …

Passing input by command line arguments: wc -l $(ls) This will count lines in the list of files printed by ls Completely different things. To answer your question, it sounds like you want to capture the rate from …

Dec 20, 2022 · This is shell-specific, but there is a way to take the line you are currently editing into your default editor, where you can edit it there, and then save and exit. Once you do that, it will update the …

Feb 17, 2011 · Unfortunately, this new-line stripping behavior makes the aforementioned xargs approach unsuitable for many use cases, because information that is indicative of where one line …

Jan 7, 2012 · For example, I have git installed on my system. But I don't remember where I installed it, so which command is fit to find this out?