I have to do watch two commands in the same terminal windows. I mean something like
watch du -h filename.txt && df -h
But its showing only one output.
So what I am thinking is may be its not possible to use watch to run multiple commands on the same window.
If there is any way , Please let me know.
Thank you.
Is there any way I can see at what time the commands were executed from the bash history? We can see the order but is there any way I can get the time also?
Bottom-Line: Execution time in the Bash history
some times while I am editing my files with nano I am facing difficulty while deleting some big line, I need to hold Del key for long time.
is there any shortcut I can found to delete the total line at a time ?
I have checked the man-page , still no use.
Thank you.
How to clear text that existed in a text file without opening it?
I mean for example I have a file as hello.txt with some text data in it, and how can I clear the total text in that file without opening it?
By this, I mean not using any editor like nano, Gedit, etc.
What is the Bash command I can use to convert an upper-case string to lower-case and vice-versa?
Thank you.
I am looking for a calculator which can do calculations in the terminal itself, without any other extra prefixes and suffixes.
For example: If I typed something like 10000-9000 in the terminal, the answer should come out as 1000.
Once again I am saying, I just need a quick calculator in the terminal, without any characters added. I know if I switch to Python, it can do that, but I don't want it in such a way.
Are there any terminals that can serve as an alternative to gnome-terminal. Do these alternatives have other/extra features ?
How can I check the version of the available package in the Ubuntu repositories without installing it?
Are there any GUI alternatives to the Ubuntu Software Center with
I like the Sticky Notes very much, they are always on the desktop.
But I can't find it in Ubuntu since 12.04. Other programs like gnotes & Xjournal are not giving a feature to stay on the desktop.
So, is there any application similar to the old sticky notes in Ubuntu?
While playing with awk I came to execute:
ls -la >> a.txt ; awk {'print $5 $1'} a.txt ;
This is giving output like:
53277-rw-------
52347-rw-------
How can I get a space between these two friends of output?
I have recently gone through this issue. I am running Lubuntu 13.04 in VirtualBox .So when I have maximized and if I would like switch to next window of main system usually we all do ALT+TAB but thats not getting for main system and going for Vbox's Lubuntu .
So how can i get activated main system ALT+TAB functionality even i have a maximized VirtaulBox operating system .
Thank you .
Hi, is it possible to know that, if Firefox or any browser is opened, whats the amount of memory taken up by each TAB of web-browser ?
I am just curious to know.
I am getting this error in Ubuntu 12.04 , while doing the below operation.
frank@august:~$ sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
[sudo] password for frank:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
frank@august:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0045' near line 0:
newline in field name `#padding'
frank@august:~$
&
frank@august:~$ head /var/lib/dpkg/updates/0045
#padding
#padding
#padding
#padding
frank@august:~$
I can't see where is the error , help me to solve this. Thank you.
I am using Ubuntu 12.04.
While seeing around here i have gone through this But it didnt seems to be work with me . Here is my trail .
raja@badfox:~$ mplayer www.live365.com
MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing www.live365.com.
File not found: 'www.live365.com'
Failed to open www.live365.com.
Exiting... (End of file)
Its looks like some background work needed .
How can I shut down or reboot Ubuntu using terminal commands?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. Is there any way to lock the screen or session from a terminal command or script?
I have a DVD ISO file and I want to burn through the terminal.
We have many command formats but I am unable to choose the best & safe one. so please give me a best command to burn the ISO through the terminal.
I just want to know where and how /run/lock and /run/shm can help our PC .
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 56G 13G 41G 24% /
udev 983M 4.0K 983M 1% /dev
tmpfs 396M 840K 395M 1% /run
none 5.0M 8.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
none 990M 164K 990M 0% /run/shm
Is it possible to restore a single file from the .tar backup? I don't want to restore total backup. I just want to restore one single file from the backup.