Questions tagged [options]
Passing options like -l or --word to commands, or parsing them in scripts.
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Using rsync with the verbose option and filtering the information displayed
I am using rsync with the -a -r and -v options to copy files and directories from one server to another.
This all works fine. But when I make a change, for example, to a single file on the source ...
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How to pass options to ssh proxy command?
To collect some data from a bunch of hosts I use a bash script which calls scp in a loop. Most of these hosts are configured for ssh public key authentication.
I may skip those which have no key ...
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Printing autocomplete info on current option in fish shell
When writing a command with a - option and pressing tab, a list of possible completions with short explanations of what the options do is displayed. Is there a way to make this list also contain the ...
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How to detect, which of features binded on hot-keys Ctrl+Shift in Gnome?
Kali 2016.2 in Qemu:
/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -boot d -m 5000 --enable-kvm
-cdrom kali-linux-2016.2-amd64.iso
I'm trying to bind switcher to Russian Language in Gnome:
dconf:
/usr/bin/dconf ...
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Why is rm -r the same as rm -R?
If you look in the rm man page you see that rm -r, rm -R, and rm --recursive are all the same.
-r, -R, --recursive
remove directories and their contents recursively
When using options, I'm ...
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/etc/fstab mount option restrictions - How to get full options list applied?
This question is a related but tangent question on problem described in this posting .
While trying to finalize the options during the previous post, I always left the root partition alone, untouched, ...
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How do I customize Nautilus / Caja file manager?
I'm using Caja and I miss several features that I had with Windows Explorer.
I'm willing to tweak some configs or even develop code to get them but I wouldn't know where to start to collaborate... ...
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rsync: How can I pull the --exclude-from file from the remote host?
I'm setting up automated rsync across the network, using (or attempting to use) the following command:
rsync -e ssh -avhxAXHr --rsync-path="sudo rsync" --exclude-from=:$EXCLUDEFILE --link-dest=$...
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How to gracefully handle differences in command options between different versions?
Inspired by What is the difference between “base64 -b0” in macOS versions prior to macOS 13 (Ventura) and “base64 -i” in macOS 13 (Ventura)?
Are there common ways to avoid the script breaking on a ...
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Duplicate boot params after grub2-mkconfig
I removed the flags 'quiet' , 'splash' , and added others in the file /etc/default/grub, applied them: grub2-mkconfig -o . After a reboot, the kernel boot flags began to double. With each 'grub2-...
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listing existing users sorted by date of creation using cut command
ASK: to use cut command to list all users to confirm a successful useradd.
ISSUE: The list was very long and I had to scroll through output to find user.
NEED: Sort by the date the user was created. ...
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What does '-x' mean in the context of the 'ps' command?
If is executed ps x (observe there is no -) then the output is as follows:
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
2489 ? Ss 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd --user
2490 ? S 0:00 (sd-pam)
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Why does the option --add_extra_groups in adduser contain underscore rather than hyphen word delimiters?
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Most of the long-form options in the various *nix tools use hyphens as word separators.
Examples
from man tr:
--squeeze-repeats
--truncate-set1
from man sudo:
--preserve-env
--set-home
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difference between environment variables and parsing command line options?
Am I wrong in assuming that both environment variables serve similar purposes - to modify default behaviour of a program from the shell? When writing a program in C, for example, if I am faced with ...
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Removing delimiters from bash array elements, then transferring result to another array
I am using an option variable array incl that stores filename extensions.
("--incl")
local incl+=("$2") ; shift 2 ;;
The function can then be called using --incl .texi --...
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