Tag: bash

Useful Linux Terminal commands

07/10/2019

I search enough for useful Linux terminal commands, I usually rely on command history, but thought I’d start recording them here. Here are a couple for starters… Search recursive folders for files containing keywords, returning file name grep -r -l “linux” Search command history for keywords, history number returned history | grep linux Remove history line 2001 history -d 2001 Run code in background from terminal – I can’t believe…

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beginners bash scripts

30/04/2013

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Bash Scripting useful Unix commands Destructions of where to save a shell file to call it from a command line did I mention I was a n00b at shell scripts 🙂 Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide 50 Linux Commands And here’s my first simple script ‘alter’, saved in my /bin directory. #!/bin/bash FILENAME=”$1″ sudo cp ${FILENAME} ${FILENAME}.old gksudo gedit ${FILENAME} From the CLI type: alter filename a copy is then taken of…