Lets imagine you want to search for a term in a file and you want to know, how often it can be found in the file. With this command combination you can count search results on bash:
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$> less xmlfile.xml | grep SearchmeIfYouCan | wc -l |
This is how this way to count search results works: The input file is opened in less. Afterwards […]
Recently I messed up my life by running this from out of my home folder:
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$> chmod 600 * |
Naturally I thought to be in another folder 😉 The result was, that I could not open any programs any more. What was not that nice! 😉 To get out of trouble I had to run these commands an […]
If you want to output a CSV file on Linux shell, you could just open it with less, cat or nano (un-formatted CSV output):
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$> less mydummyfile.csv $> cat mydummyfile.csv $> nano mydummyfile.csv |
The problem with this approach is, that you will get an unformatted ugly chunk of characters like that: A much better way is it, to use the less command in combination with […]
