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What are some good bash tutorials? I would like to learn more about the bash shells commands and how to use them.
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When I run a program from the console, e.g.
me@box:~$ firefox
I expect the console to log error messages (I think this is std out or std err?) and other items from the program, firefox in this case.
But today I notice that bash just opens the program and goes to a new prompt, e.g.
me@box:~$…
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I was updating my .bash_profile, and unfortunetly I made a few updates and now I am getting:
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
-bash: tar: command…
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I was updating my .bash_profile, and unfortunetly I made a few updates and now I am getting:
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
-bash: tar: command…
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ps -e | grep bash
sample output from a linux machine:
1128 pts/14 00:00:00 bash
7491 pts/7 00:00:00 bash
12651 pts/14 00:00:00 bash
16145 pts/2 00:00:00 bash
sample output from a mac machine:
58352 ttys000 0:00.09 login -pfl username /bin/bash -c exec -la bash /bin/bash
58353 ttys000…
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First login process name seems to be set to "-bash", but if I subshell then it becomes "bash". for example:
root@nowere:~# echo $0
-bash
root@nowere:~# bash
root@nowere:~# echo $0
bash
-bash is causing some scripts to fail, such as . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend…
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Is it possible to prevent any user to not use commands like ls, rm and other system commands which could harm the system. But the users should be able to execute shell programs.
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I have a Copy Hook Handler shell extension that I'm trying to install on Windows 7 64-bit.
The shell extension DLL is compiled in two separate versions for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.
The DLL implements DLLRegisterServer which adds the necessary registry entries.
After adding the registry entries…
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With either subprocess.call or subprocess.Popen, executing a shell command makes a shell window quicky appear and disappear.
How can I run the shell command without the shell window?
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I've been looking all around the Internet for an answer but didn't find anything. I hope you can help me now.
I have a server with MySQL. From one day to another, MySQL didn't let me enter with my root password anymore (accsess denied for user 'root'@'localhost' using password: 'YES'). So I tried…
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function grabSourceFile
{
cd /tmp/lmpsource
wget $1 > $LOG
baseName=$(basename $1)
tar -xvf $baseName > $LOG
cd $baseName
}
When I call this function The captured output is not going to the log file. The output redirection works fine until I call the…
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