The following shell script finds duplicate (2 or more identical) files and outputs a new shell script containing commented-out rm statements for deleting them (copy-paste from here): ::: updated on 02 …

 This is too good. If you are planning to start a background process in the bash script in the background and continue in the script, you cannot do it until……. You would need to close the stdout/stdin …

If you are looking for testing the colors on how they would look like in the xterm before you set the color then here is a small script for you. […] <td> <div class="text …

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If you are behind a firewall and install some software like top or wget then you can not use sunfreeware, and why because ftp is blocked. Now that is not the case any more, you can go the http mirror …

Here is some teaser for you, can you figure out how this works:

Lets take a quick look at how to get the most frequently used commands on you shell. So what we need to do is this: […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> history | awk …

Couple of days, I added some scripts to my bash startup and suddenly realized that bash completions stopped working. This is tricky situation in bash to figure out what went wrong. So, I set my foot …

Here are some links for bash programming that you may find useful. http://tips-linux.net/en/content/pro-bash-programming http://tips-linux.net/en/content/expert-shell-scripting …

write the output of a command to /var/log/user.log… each line will contain $USER, making this easy to grep for. […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> &nbsp;log() { …

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