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Display current path in terminal only [closed]

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May 10, 2022
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How to check permissions of a specific directory?

I know that using ls -l "directory/directory/filename" tells me the permissions of a file. How do I do the same on a directory? ...

May 9, 2022
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How do I use the nohup command without getting nohup.out?

I have a problem with the nohup command. When I run my job, I have a lot of data. The output nohup.out becomes ...

May 9, 2022
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Is PowerShell ready to replace my Cygwin shell on Windows? [closed]

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May 9, 2022
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sed edit file in place

I am trying to find out if it is possible to edit a file in a single sed command without manually streaming the ...

May 8, 2022
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Concatenate multiple files but include filename as section headers

I would like to concatenate a number of text files into one large file in terminal. I know I can do this using ...

May 6, 2022
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How can I grep for a string that begins with a dash/hyphen?

I want to grep for the string that starts with a dash/hyphen, like -X, in a file, but it’s confusing this as a ...

May 6, 2022
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grep a tab in UNIX

How do I grep tab (\t) in files on the Unix platform? 22 s 22 The trick is to use $ sign before ...

May 4, 2022
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Why is 1/1/1970 the “epoch time”?

Why is 1 January 1970 00:00:00 considered the epoch time? 5 s 5 Early versions of unix measured system time in 1/60 s ...

May 3, 2022
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Equivalent of *Nix ‘which’ command in PowerShell?

How do I ask PowerShell where something is? For instance, “which notepad” and it returns the directory where the notepad.exe is run from ...

May 3, 2022
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