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How to pipe text from command line to the clipboard
I'd like to do something like
dir *.* > clipboard
ie. get to get the standard output of a command line program copied to the clipboard. Can this be done on a standard XP machine without ...
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Terminal new window always shows -bash: Searching: command not found
When open terminal, it always shows -bash: Searching: command not found. It does not affect other functions, just each time, even though open a new terminal window, it still pops up at the top of the ...
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How do I get the size of a Linux or Mac OS X directory from the command-line? [duplicate]
What command do I use to find the size of all the files (recursively) in a Linux or Mac OS X directory?
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Which torrent apps work headless (from command line only)?
There's a question on here about what torrent apps work well remotely, but I'm hoping to find out one that works well through a command line interface, preferably with no GUI.
What torrent apps ...
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OSX bash command line countdown timer
I found here on superuser the following nice countdown script that I could include in my .bash_profile:
function countdown(){
date1=$((`date +%s` + $1));
while [ "$date1" -ne `date +%s` ];...
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Different time specification formats with crontab
Say you want to run a job every 30 minutes on linux (or osx) using crontab. Sometimes I see the the sytax written like this:
30 * * * * /path/to/job
and sometimes I see it written like
*/30 * * * * ...
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