Questions tagged [command-line-interface]
A command-line interface (CLI) is a mechanism for interacting with a computer operating system or software by typing commands to perform specific tasks.
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How to find the browser versions from command-line in Linux & Windows?
In ubuntu when I just open a terminal and say
"firefox -v" or "konqurer -v"
it prints all the version information.
But, I am not able to find how to go about this for
Chromium on Linux & ...
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How to get URLs for requests currently served by Nginx?
As the title explains, I want to know the URLs for requests that are currently being served by Nginx, all the answers regarding nginx_status endpoint talk about the number of requests, if possible I ...
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CLI tool to monitor file size growth, transfer rate, and calculate progress bar/ETA?
I have a Proxmox job, and I'm running a backup job via the web UI. (I'm guessing it just uses the Proxmox vzdump command under the hood.) The final QEMU disk will be close to a TB in size, so I'd like ...
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What's the reverse DNS command line utility?
What's the command to find the name of a computer given its IP address?
I always forget what this command is, but I know it exists in Windows and I assume it exists on the *nix command-line.
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How to edit command completion for ssh on zsh?
I'd like to set up command completion on zsh to display host names after I type
ssh [TAB]
taking the names out of my .ssh/config file (and preferably from known_hosts and /etc/hosts and anywhere ...
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How to install packages from command line on Suse
What is the Suse version of apt-get or yum? Or how do I get one of them installed in order to install software packages from the command line?
A fairly intense session of googling suggests that it may ...
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How to get the count of all files in current directory?
What command would you use in cmd.exe to find the number of files in the current directory?
Is there a PowerShell option here?
Update: I was hoping to avoid dir, as I know there are 10,000+ files in ...
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Take screenshot of rendered HTML from Linux without GUI
Is there any smart tool or anything I can use to take a screenshot of a rendered localhost website on a Linux server without monitors?
I am using Rocky Linux 9 and I have done group-install of "...
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Run program on incoming call w/ SIP (callmonitor) on Linux
Friends,
I'd like to run a custom program whenever a SIP call is received, similar to common call monitoring UIs. I do not need any (G)UI for this. I imaginge something like:
/usr/bin/the-imaginary-...
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What is the difference, if any, between runai suspend + runai resume vs. runai delete + clone job via UI?
What is the difference, if any, between runai suspend + runai resume vs. runai delete + clone job via UI?
Both runai suspend and runai delete delete logs and any data saved on the container, so I don'...
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How can one clone a runAI job via command line?
The runAI web UI allows users to clone jobs. How can one clone a runAI job via command line?
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Xenserver Template Storage Dependency - VM Creation Issues on Different Hosts
I'm working with XenServer (XCP-ng) and have encountered an issue with VM creation from templates. Here's the scenario:
Three storage repositories (SRs) on separate hosts (host1, host2,
host3).
A ...
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GNU less: How can I search while ignoring case sensitivity without using less -I option?
From GNU less manpage
-i or --ignore-case
Causes searches to ignore case; that is, uppercase and lowercase are considered identical.
This option is ignored if any uppercase letters appear in the ...
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Search and delete lines matching a pattern along with comments in previous line if any
I have a requirement to write a shell script in csh to search and delete lines matching a pattern along with comments in previous line if any. For example if my file has the following lines
Shell ...
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CloudLinux Terminal CLI command to get OS version
On the documentation page (https://docs.cloudlinux.com/shared/command-line_tools/) there are nearly 300 instances of the word "version" and skimming through it goes in to users, programming ...
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Trying to pull the first word from a text file that has a username password format and pass it to a command
I have a text file. It appears similar to this:
john-doe password
I want to pull the username from the list and use it to add the user to a group:
net localgroup "remote desktop users" ...
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Query Windows RDP monitor positions via command line
I am using Windows RDP (remote desktop) with a multi-monitor setup and I want my script to automatically detect the position of the monitors. Additionally, I only use some of my monitors for RPD with ...
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In bash how do you delete a partial word similar to ctrl-w
Say I have a directory with one file in it
mylongfilename.blahdeblah.txt
now the keystrokes
mv [tab] [tab]
will result in
mv mylongfilename.blahdeblah.txt mylongfilename.blahdeblah.txt
on my command ...
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Is there an easy command line tool for packet sniffing a single command on linux?
I'd love if there was a single command line tool for packet sniffing a single command in Linux. something like sniff dumpfile command so that you could just run the command you want to packet sniff in ...
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Long running PHP script get terminated and other separate PHP cmd line processes as well
Env: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS PHP 8.1 CMD line scripts started with the & and left to run in the background
I have 3 separate PHP scripts which I started from an SSH session and are placed in the ...
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How to compile capacity and used capacity of an EMC VNX via CLI?
I'm automating a report that will essentially duplicate the information shown in the Storage Capacity Summary chart from the EMC Unisphere web interface. I need to perform this from the command line ...
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GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS where is it?
I am trying to follow the directions to use cloud translation.
At https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/quickstart-protocol?hl=en_US are the instructions, but I am not clear on these.
I have ...
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How do I change the bg color of chmod 777 directories in tcsh?
On my MacBook Pro, I have iTerm and use the (black background) Pastel color set. World writable directories show up with a yellow background behind grey text. This I can live with, since the grey is ...
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What Emacs package should I install for command-line on FreeBSD?
I'm newbie on BSD.
I installed FreeBSD with minimal configuration, so there's no package installed.
I tried pkg_add -r emacs, the command tried installing many of X11 related packages (not sure, but ...
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How to check IPv6 address via command line?
How do I check the IPv6 address via command line?
For IPv4 I simply use:
curl ipinfo.io/ip
This doesn't work for IPv6.
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Handy parsing for numbers with unit suffixes?
Let's say you have data with quantities in human-readable format, such as the output of du -h, and want to further operate on those numbers. Let's say you want to pipe your data through grep to do a ...
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Run a .bat file in a scheduled task without a window
I have a scheduled task that starts a batch script that runs robocopy every hour. Every time it runs a window pops up on the desktop with robocopy's output, which I don't really want to see.
I ...
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How can I get diff to show only added and deleted lines? If diff can't do it, what tool can?
How can I get diff to show only added and deleted lines? If diff can't do it, what tool can?
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Listing of files recursively with modified time in tree-like format
I'm looking for a single command to list all files recursively from a given directory along with its modified time. It would also be nice if it can produce output in a tree-like format as produced by ...
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Why `wc -c` always count 1 more character?
in tmp I type a single character,but wc -c shows 2,why?
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Printing a '$' (dollar sign) to a file
I want to echo/printf a dollar sign into a file - but echo $ > myfile or such does not work (not surprising).
I tried escaping it like echo \$ > myfile but it is also not working.
What is the ...
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AWS Windows EC2 instance does not recognize assigned IAM role
Initially I launched a brand-new Windows Server 2016 server EC2. I assigned a S3 full admin IAM role to this instance when launching it. I installed CLI on it. I started a CMD window, and typed in "...
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How to change my commandline locale after CentOS decided to change it?
So apparently, CentOS decided I was Dutch, and thus, should not have a English locale.
Apart from the fact that this greatly bothers me, I am having a pretty hard time actually changing it back. ...
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Using ROBOCOPY to MOVE data around, not copy it
I have the following powershell script, which executes a few robocopy commands:
ROBOCOPY.exe $q3 $q4 /R:5 /W:15 /S /NP /MT:32 /XA:SH /XJD
ROBOCOPY.exe $q2 $q3 /R:5 /W:15 /S /NP /MT:32 /XA:SH /XJD
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How to detect current media type in CLI under Windows? (DVD-RW, BD-R, etc)
How to detect current media type in CLI under Windows? (DVD-RW, BD-R, etc)
I've tried with wmic cdrom get /format:list but no info about the current media type.
I want to detect if the disc is a CD, ...
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How to establish VPN connection with two factor authentication from CLI
A VPN connection have to be established on demand from a bash script. GUI needed to enter two factor auth code. If you'll try to execute in terminal:
VPN_NAME=$(nmcli con|grep "VPN"|awk '{...
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ssh from CL using keyfile from Windows client to Linux server
This sort of thing drives me crazy - hopefully obvious solution(s). Have keys on Win 10 laptop, and on one of my Linux servers. If I use puTTY, where I can explicitly browse to the keyfile on the ...
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Get file system type in AIX
I want to fetch the file system types in AIX like NFS and all. du command shows just the file systems not their types. How can I do that?
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AWS EC2 How to install Windows Updates and Reboot computer remotely?
I want to run a command via AWS Run Command that downloads and installs windows updates on a remote Windows 2012 R2 Server instance running on EC2, and reboots the instance.
I tried suggestions on ...
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How to set Wildfly/JBoss domain controller IP address in managed servers using CLI?
I'm trying to change the domain controller IP address in JBoss/Wildfly managed servers using the management cli, but the configuration either keeps unchanged or changes in the wrong way.
I can find ...
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Can Wildfly/JBoss Management CLI with embedded host controller use a temporary local domain controller?
I need to use Wildfly/JBoss Management CLI to set up managed servers connections to the domain controller. It's under automation, so I'm using the Embedded Host Controller to avoid the hassle of ...
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What does the "@" sign mean in ls -l output?
I have this output on MacOSX:
$ ls -l
total 40
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 levente staff 52 30 Sep 15:38 pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 levente staff 675 14 Feb 17:07 plplay
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 levente staff 662 26 Jan 14:13 ...
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Force SSH to use a specific shell
Is there any way to force SSH to use a particular shell on the remote end, regardless of what the user's default shell is?
I've tried solutions akin to:
ssh host.domain.com /bin/bash -c 'complicated,...
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How can I fix this Mysql login?
I have installed MYSQL community edition on Windows server, I also added the Environment variable to execute the mysql command.
The scenario is: When I try to connect to mysql using the CMD I get the ...
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How to take ownership of files from the command line?
Every so often I run into a file that I need to take ownership of. I normally use cacls for changing ntfs permissions, but it doesn't seem to do ownership. Under *nix I would run something like ...
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How to check if a process is running or blocked on lock or I/O?
There are 2 instances of a script reported by ps.
How can I see in the command line if one of those (and which) is blocked on either I/O or on a file lock?
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Non-interactive creation of SSL certificate requests
Is there a way to create SSL cert requests by specifying all the required parameters on the initial command? I am writing a CLI-based web server control panel and I would like to avoid the use of ...
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Strange bash history behaviour when running multiple sessions
How is command line history stored when I use multiple terminal windows? I know it is stored in .bash_history but I can't see the logic on what history is used if I open new window.
It almost feels ...
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How do I convert wireshark capture files to text files?
How can I convert wirshark captures (.cap) files to text files or some format from which I can read the file and parse its contents ?
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Script to cleanup Windows.old remotely
Problem:
A lot of older workstations on our networks are running out of hard disk space and I am looking for ways to stream-line the process of cleaning up some space. I understand I can use Disk ...
