Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Ubuntu and Debian are using Dash (Debian ASH) as the system’s default, non-interactive shell, due to the fact that bash has high memory requirements and so, the system would have needed more time…
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How To Install Popular Linux Stuff: sudo, bash, nmap, wget, mc On Jolla’s Sailfish OS
Hello Jolla Enthusiasts. In this article I will show you how to install a bunch of popular Linux tools, including: sudo, bash, nmap, ncat, nping, wget and mc on Jolla’s Sailfish OS system. Since it is SUSE based, we are…
Tagged with: bash, jolla, jolla news, mc, nmap, sailfish os, sailfish os news, sudo, wget
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Oneliners for Removing the duplicates in your $PATH
Hello Bash Coders. In this article I will show you how to remove the duplicates in your PATH environment variable. This is how you do it with AWK: ONE: $ echo -n $PATH | awk -v RS=: -v ORS=: ‘!arr[$0]++’…
Ignore duplicate entries in the bash history
As you know, bash keeps a history of the commands used in your user’s session. But, when you use a command twice (or more), it will be saved with two (or more) entries in the bash history. The best way…
Tagged with: bash, bash history, bash trick, HISTCONTROL, ignore duplicates from the bash history, ignore duplicates in the bash history, linux, unix
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Setting a text editor for visudo
As you know, the recommended way for editing the/etc/sudoers file is with visudo. Visudo opens the /etc/sudoers file with the default text editor, and warns you if you save code with errors. Visudo reads the SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL and EDITOR variables,…
For the Unix and Linux beginners: How to display the common PATH-like environment variables
A regular Linux and Unix user should know how to use the PATH, CDPATH, MANPATH and HOME environment variables, in the bash shell. With the PATH and the CDPATH set in the right way, you can easily use your commands…
Tagged with: bash, bash PATH, CDPATH, display environment variable, HOME, linux, MANPATH, PATH, unix
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The Unix and Linux SHELL variable: $SHELL
The SHELL variable stores the parent shell for your session, which sometimes matches with your default login shell. The $SHELL is the parent shell which spawned the current session. $ whoami razvan $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash $ zsh % echo…
Tagged with: bash, change default shell, change login shell, linux, shell, shell variable, system default shell, unix, variable
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The bash !$ trick: Insert the last argument of the previous command in the current command
The !$ trick works on bash, csh, tcsh and zsh, but does not work on ksh. The !$ trick is very usefull in the Linux and Unix shells. In the Bash shell, the !$ inserts (and expands) the last used…
Tagged with: bash, bash trick, bash tricks, csh, ksh, linux, shell trick, tcsh, tcsh trick, the bash shell tricks, unix, zsh, zsh trick
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2 Bash tricks: TAB-TAB and Case Insensitive Completion
In this article I will show you two bash inputrc tricks. The first one is: set show-all-if-ambiguous on. Add this to your ~/.inputrc file because it is very usefull. When pressing TAB for command completion, all the matches will be…
Tagged with: ~/.inputrc, bash, bash trick, bash tricks, case insensitive completion, linux, tab tab, unix
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