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Q&A What are non-POSIX shells and what's the point of them?

I've been learning some Linux and I finally feel like I can find my way around the command line. But now I hear people say there are other, "non-POSIX" kinds of shell, with different semantics. Wha...

1 answer  ·  posted 5d ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 5d ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question shell posix cli
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Q&A Prettify XML in a shell

How to pretty print XML in a shell? I have command-line tool which outputs XML in a single line, totally unreadable. I would like something to pipe this into, to turn it into human readable XML wi...

1 answer  ·  posted 9d ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 9d ago by Iizuki‭

Question shell xml
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Q&A How to invert command exit code?

How to apply a logical not to a shell command, e.g. in a Bash script? So if the command exited with 0 (success) I would like it to be changed to a non-zero value, and if it exited with a non-zero ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 9d ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A How to count the lines of a file?

How to get the number of lines in a file? I.e. for a file like this: Line one Line 2 Final line I would like to do something like this: $ count-lines /path/to/the/file/above 3

2 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Michael‭

Question shell file
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Q&A How do I find files?

How can I search for files on my system? Ideally, I would like to search by various criteria, like date, name, extension, etc.

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question shell file
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Q&A Reverse shell with named pipe and netcat

This blog post describes a privilege escalation, exploiting tar's --checkpoint-action option. The privilege escalation is used to solve a TryHackMe challenge. The root user calls tar via cron whi...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Matthias Braun‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Kamil Maciorowski‭

Question shell networking
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Q&A Can I enter raw strings in fish to avoid escaping regexes for sed?

When running sed through fish, I often encounter a problem with regexes. Many commonly used regex control characters like []{}().+ need to be escaped, even if I type the regex in a single quoted st...

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by terdon‭

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Q&A How to give password in shell script?

That's my Bash script: #!bin/sh cd qpixel sudo systemctl enable mysql mysql -u root -p rails s When it executes the line mysql -u root -p it will ask for password. To do so, I have tried...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 1y ago by fedorqui‭

Question shell bash password
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Q&A Capture separate _and_ combined stdout/stderr

Using BASH, how can I redirect stdout and stderr each, to two separate files, simultaneously? That's a mouthful, let me clarify a little: I have a hypothetical script that may/will generate outpu...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by jaybeers‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

Question shell bash
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Q&A A shell script that can run under different shells

I have a shell script with a syntax compatible to both bash and zsh, except for a section that has zsh specific syntax that throws syntax errors if sourced from bash. Is there an easy way to escap...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by 4015.alt‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by mjy‭

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Q&A Do shells have anything to do with port forwarding or port triggering?

I find port forwarding and port triggering as advanced sub-topics of the topic of network protocols which include the "port" concept such as TCP and UDP. I am wondering if shells in general and Ba...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by LawrenceC‭

Question shell port
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Q&A grub loader can't detect Bliss OS | Shell

While this is about grub loader, this is likely to be a question of OS related. If it doesn't belong to this site than I will remove it. I had installed Bliss in sda2. Device Boot Start...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by deleted user

Question shell linux