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I'm not sure what you mean, that is the default behavior of the copy command (cp): Copy many files: cp *txt *jpg destination_dir Here are some examples of more complex operations: Copy all fil …

Another option is to open a new terminal and switch to root. Depending on how your system is set up you will be able to do this using one or more of the following ways: sudo su sudo -i su Once you …

Here's a couple: fold echo "Hello there" | fold -w 1 H e l l o t h e r e Perl echo "Hello there" | perl -pe 's/(.)/$1\n/g;' H e l l o t h e r e

If you want to rename many files, do something like this: for f in *Prd*;do mv "$f" "${f/Prd/Ppt}"; done This will go through all files whose name contains Prd in the current directory and rename t …

The best solution would be to install NTP on both machines and have them sync to the same server. This is not an option, of course, if you only have root access to one of the two. Assuming that you ha …

There are many ways of doing this (taken from here): the full pathname of the command: /bin/cp -f source_file dest_file command substitution: $(which cp) -f source_file dest_file the command builtin …

I could give you a pure awk answer if you post an example of your actual data. In the absence of specific clues, you can always try Perl: perl -ne '/FG=(\d+)/; print "$1\n"' infile.txt > outfile.txt …

Um, yes. That's what group permissions are. The way you have it set up now is: d rwx rwx r-x - --- --- --- | | | |------> Everybody can read(r) and execute(x) | | | | | |----------> All gr …

Just make chrome an alias. Add this line to your ~/.bashrc (you can do similar things for other shells of course): alias chrome='chrome --auth-server-whitelist=*' Then either source ~/.bashrc or ju …

on the Unix machine edit the file ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml and change this line: <property name="&lt;Alt&gt;Tab" type="string" value="cycle_windows_key"/ …

I am sure you can also do this in sed but it is much easier for me in Perl: perl -pe 's/([^,])\"/$1xxx/g; s/xxx,/\",/g; s/xxx/\"\"\"/g' data.txt EXPLANATION: perl -pe : execute the script given o …

You can always imagine possible scenarios. For example, 060 (group has read/write access and no one else can do anything) could be useful if you have a webserver creating a file but you don't want it …

All you need is a one liner, no script file is necessary: awk '/FUELHH/{print > "fuelhh.txt"}/FUELINST/{print}' datafile > fuelinst.txt

All this information is available in the top man page which you can read by running man top. Here is a breakdown: The CPU(s) row shows: CPU state percentages based on the interval since the last re …

There are many ways of doing this. Here are a few but use the Perl one it is orders of magnitude faster. I include the others for the sake of completeness: Perl and hashes, ridiculously fast perl …