Finding Files On The Command Line
Add a line in a specific position with Linux
If you need to add a line to a file in Linux, and you need to add that line in a specific position of the file there is an easy solution, even if you need to do it to hundreds of thousands of files.
Consider this file:
line 1
line 2
line 4
As you can see we missed line 3, so to add it just execute this command:
sed '3iline 3'
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20 interesting and extremely helpful Linux command line tricks
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As you start spending more and more time working on Linux command line, you tend to learn some cool tricks that make your life easy and save you lot of time. I have been working on Linux command line for many years now and I have learned a lot of Linux command line tricks.
Could some one tell me a single line command to feed my cmd input from a file and delete the same file while the command is still running?
EDIT: By single line command I meant, performing this entire action in one command. This behavior has got to do with executing processes and commands simultaneously.
I needed to run convert with a lot of images at the same time. The command took quite a while but this doesn't bother me.
The issue is that this command rendered my computer unusable while the command was running (for about 15 minutes).
So is it possible to throttle the command by limiting resources (processor and memory) to the command, directly from the command line?
In the Linux kernel, I can send a file to the printer using the following command
cat file.txt > /dev/usb/lp0
From what I understand, this redirects the contents in file.txt into the printing location. I tried using the following command
>>os.system('cat file.txt > /dev/usb/lp0')
I thought this command would achieve the same thing, but it gave me a "Permission Denied" error.
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I don't recall to have explicitly placed anything in my .bashrc file recently, but from yesterday I am able to see the command being displayed at the prompt before getting executed.
I have a "command" text file that issues a data file download command on each
line. I send the command file to bash. However, a small percentage of the downloads fail.
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