... 1Starting Linux Command- Line AdministrationTo unleash the full power of Linux, as a Linux administrator you will spend most of your time typing commands on the Linuxcommand line, the so-called ... source code of the command. /PTIONS ARE VERY SPECIFIC TO THE COMMAND YOU USE 3OME COMMANDS DONT HAVE ANY OPTIONS and other commands can have more than 50. The i]j command normally gives you a ... important and most useful features.Commands, Options, and ArgumentsA Linuxcommand normally consists of three parts: the command itself, the command options, and its arguments. For instance,...
... this command uses the value of the LOGNAME variable for the echo com-mand, and sets the value of username to the value of LOGNAME. 32CHAPTER 5 ■ ACCEPTING COMMAND- LINE OPTIONS, SWITCHES, AND ... troubleshooting so they don’t have to remember all the paths and commands. That could be especially helpful if that support staff is not very proficient with the command line. To modify the sample code for ... another switch, and perform a netstat -a with yet another. This is much like creating a set of command- line aliases to save time by reducing keystrokes for commonly used commands and utilities.Most...
... Pressing Enter then executes the command. 100CHAPTER 15 ■ COMMAND- LINE EDITING AND HISTORYWhen you enter command mode you start at the bottom of your history and press the K key to move back ... path or command, and once you’ve typed a sufficient number of characters for the path or command to be uniquely determined, pressing a special key or key sequence will com-plete the command. For ... as for bash:set -o vi Command and File CompletionOne additional option, available in both shells, that increases your efficiency at the com-mand line is commandand file completion. With this...
... looked at the ping and arpcommands. These are available from the webinterface but they are also available from the command line. To ping another machine from the command line type:freenas:~# ... usefulwhen using the commandline but they aren't quite bigenough to warrant a section of their own, so I havegrouped them all together here.Using ping and arp from the Command Line In chapter ... desktop OS and comeswith a full windowing desktop environment.Your First FreeBSD CommandsThe easiest way to get to the FreeBSD command line is via the FreeNAS console menu. With FreeNASup and running,...
... single command line. ã Many commands do not require all three parts.Some examples are:$ cal (Command only)$ cal 1987 (Command and argument)$ date (Command only)$ date -u (Command and option)$ ... (;) enables you to enter multiple commands on a single command line. The semicolon is also referred to as the command separator. Command Format command; commandUsing the Semicolon$ cd;lsdante ... you can type commands. Commands are instructions which tell the system to perform an action.The general format for Linux commands is:$ command [option (s)] [argument[s]] command Executable...
... address with the mail com-mand; the tmpfile is then removed.■TipIf the uuencode and uudecode commands are not installed on your system, you can find the appro-priate installation package of the ... -z $1 ]then file=$1 CHAPTER 23 ■ COMMAND- LINE E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS155■TipIf the mimencode utility is not installed on your system, find it by installing the metamail package, which includes ... header instead of specifying the destination address manually. Finally we remove the temporary file for cleanup. 151■ ■ ■CHAPTER 23 Command- Line E-mail AttachmentsI often send e-mail to myself...
... 1104249096 Jun 7 21:22 really_big.logThe following command is one, cp /dev/null really_big.log is another, and echo > really_big.log is yet another. All of these commands overwrite a large ... script steps through each of the locally mounted file systems and finds all core files. It determines the applications that created the core filesand moves the core files to a central location for ... here is the cp -p command. cp -p $LOGFILE ${LOGFILE}.0 > $LOGFILEfiThis command preserves the original file’s ownership and time stamp for the new copy. Thus the new copy maintains the...
... (mistyped) command in your history and then edit the command sequence using vi-style command- line editing. You can also recall a previously entered miniscript for easy modification and reuse.1. ... by using a command call within back-ticks (` `). A command string enclosed within back-ticks denotes not the given string, but the string obtained by evaluating the command string and replacing ... To read a file line- by -line where the lines contain more than a single “word,” refer to Chapter 10. 104CHAPTER 16 ■ SCRIPTING FROM THE COMMAND LINE concurrent package installation on a large...
... ECLIPSING THE COMMANDLINE 279810ch02.qxd 5/15/08 11:04 AM Page 27 SummaryEclipse is an increasingly popular IDE that offers many advantages over the command line. It’sfree, and it has an ... the installation process by selecting Help➤ Software Updates ➤ Find and Install.This brings up the Install/Update window, shown in Figure 2-4.CHAPTER 2■THE IDE: ECLIPSING THE COMMANDLINE ... The IDE: Eclipsing the Command Line There are two main ways you can work with Python: through the commandline or throughan IDE. Both have their distinct advantages and disadvantages. I’m not...