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The Linux yes command allows you to automate responses to scripts and commands, but how it responds is up to you.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to work with the eval command. It’s a bash built-in that can run a variable as a command. This means that you can set up a complex command by saving it as a variable and then run it using eval. Doing this can be ver...
There are a lot of ways on Linux to make repeating commands easier than retyping them, and here's a nice collection of them.
New to Rocky Linux 9 is Peridot, a tool that makes it easy for anyone to replicate and extend Rocky Linux.
While fold is generally used to break long lines of text into shorter lines, it can also provide the arguments to drive a loop.
This trick works because Linux stores dates/times as the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. This doesn’t mean you can’t look at earlier dates; the earlier dates are simply stored as negative numbers.
The eval command allows you to run the contents of variables as commands and can be very useful, especially in scripts.
The newest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux also improves support for containers.
File names on Linux can be 255 characters, and here's how to find the longest ones.
The Linux fold command can break long lines of text into pieces, but it can also be used to create arguments for looping in scripts.
