More precisely, a double dash (--) is used in most Bash built-in commands and many other commands to signify the end of command options, after which only positional ("non-option") arguments are …

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 …

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 …

Aug 28, 2008 · I'd prefer a command line solution which relies on standard Linux commands since I have to administer quite a few systems and installing new software is a hassle (especially when out …

247 uname -m gives i686 and uname -m gives i686 i386 output in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga) machine. I need to install Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on that machine. …

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 …

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?

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 …

I decided to use xte to directly press that key from the command line: Volume up: xte 'key 0x1008ff13' Volume down: xte 'key 0x1008ff11' Mute: xte 'key 0x1008ff12' I figured out the keysym (that hex …

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 …