Command line and bash notes: Revision history

17 May 2024

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15 March 2024

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27 November 2023

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28 August 2023

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• curprev 14:3114:31, 28 August 2023‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 90,618 bytes +22‎ →‎tweaking less's behaviour

18 April 2023

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• curprev 13:1813:18, 18 April 2023‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 90,546 bytes +15‎ →‎Quick and dirty utilities
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12 March 2023

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14 February 2023

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12 January 2023

• curprev 12:4612:46, 12 January 2023‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 88,635 bytes +1‎ →‎env
• curprev 12:4512:45, 12 January 2023‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 88,634 bytes +26‎ →‎env
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14 November 2022

• curprev 12:1612:16, 14 November 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 88,562 bytes +39‎ →‎'bad interpreter: no such file or directory', and an ^M at the end of the interpreter name
• curprev 12:1412:14, 14 November 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 88,523 bytes +31‎ →‎env
• curprev 12:1212:12, 14 November 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 88,492 bytes −1‎ →‎env
• curprev 12:1012:10, 14 November 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 88,493 bytes +114‎ →‎Hashbang
• curprev 11:4111:41, 14 November 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 88,379 bytes +250‎ →‎env
• curprev 11:3311:33, 14 November 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 88,129 bytes +441‎ →‎Hashbang
• curprev 11:2311:23, 14 November 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 87,688 bytes +394‎ →‎env
• curprev 11:0511:05, 14 November 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 87,294 bytes +23‎ →‎Hashbang
• curprev 11:0511:05, 14 November 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 87,271 bytes +9‎ →‎Hashbang

30 April 2022

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11 April 2022

• curprev 21:1621:16, 11 April 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 86,945 bytes −60‎ No edit summary

3 February 2022

• curprev 14:0614:06, 3 February 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 87,005 bytes +47‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 13:5913:59, 3 February 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 86,958 bytes +9‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 13:5913:59, 3 February 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 86,949 bytes +280‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 13:5513:55, 3 February 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 86,669 bytes +6‎ →‎Return codes

1 February 2022

• curprev 14:2714:27, 1 February 2022‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 86,663 bytes +23‎ →‎Return codes

30 August 2021

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1 July 2021

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18 April 2021

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• curprev 14:3414:34, 18 April 2021‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 86,519 bytes +312‎ →‎Stopping something that seems to ignore Ctrl-C, and stopping
• curprev 14:3014:30, 18 April 2021‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 86,207 bytes +4‎ →‎Execution related
• curprev 14:3014:30, 18 April 2021‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 86,203 bytes +2,798‎ →‎Execution related
• curprev 13:3613:36, 18 April 2021‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 83,405 bytes +4,093‎ →‎Shell stuff I occasionally look up

8 April 2021

• curprev 14:1114:11, 8 April 2021‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 79,312 bytes +64‎ →‎Aliases

9 July 2020

• curprev 14:3614:36, 9 July 2020‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 79,248 bytes +153‎ →‎Return codes

8 April 2020

• curprev 21:0721:07, 8 April 2020‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 79,095 bytes +144‎ →‎Shell conditionals and scripting

16 December 2019

• curprev 16:0216:02, 16 December 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 78,951 bytes +44‎ →‎Return codes

9 December 2019

• curprev 15:1315:13, 9 December 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 78,907 bytes +429‎ →‎Applied to filenames
• curprev 15:0915:09, 9 December 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 78,478 bytes +3‎ No edit summary
• curprev 14:4914:49, 9 December 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 78,475 bytes −679‎ No edit summary
• curprev 14:4814:48, 9 December 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 79,154 bytes +2,432‎ →‎Pattern and substring stuff
• curprev 14:2014:20, 9 December 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 76,722 bytes +27‎ →‎Directory of script being run

18 November 2019

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• curprev 16:1016:10, 18 November 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 76,579 bytes +2‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 16:1016:10, 18 November 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 76,577 bytes +267‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 16:0316:03, 18 November 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 76,310 bytes +10‎ →‎technical notes
• curprev 16:0216:02, 18 November 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 76,300 bytes +24‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 15:5615:56, 18 November 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 76,276 bytes +100‎ →‎Return codes

11 November 2019

• curprev 15:0615:06, 11 November 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 76,176 bytes +5‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 14:5614:56, 11 November 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 76,171 bytes −18‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 14:5514:55, 11 November 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 76,189 bytes −3‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 14:5514:55, 11 November 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 76,192 bytes +7‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 14:5414:54, 11 November 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 76,185 bytes −16‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 14:5414:54, 11 November 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 76,201 bytes +5‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 14:5414:54, 11 November 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 76,196 bytes −24‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 14:5214:52, 11 November 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 76,220 bytes +654‎ →‎Return codes

6 November 2019

• curprev 16:0116:01, 6 November 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 75,566 bytes +473‎ →‎pathname expansion

16 October 2019

• curprev 13:0113:01, 16 October 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 75,093 bytes −232‎ →‎Using your history

2 October 2019

• curprev 15:3815:38, 2 October 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 75,325 bytes +285‎ →‎For

25 September 2019

• curprev 15:4915:49, 25 September 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 75,040 bytes +7‎ →‎Pattern and substring stuff
• curprev 15:4915:49, 25 September 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 75,033 bytes +109‎ →‎Pattern and substring stuff
• curprev 15:4715:47, 25 September 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 74,924 bytes +1‎ →‎Pattern and substring stuff

22 July 2019

• curprev 17:0317:03, 22 July 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 74,923 bytes +131‎ →‎PAGER
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4 June 2019

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• curprev 12:2412:24, 4 June 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 74,668 bytes +1‎ →‎More on && and ||
• curprev 12:2412:24, 4 June 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 74,667 bytes −1‎ →‎More on && and ||
• curprev 12:2112:21, 4 June 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 74,668 bytes +1‎ →‎More on && and ||
• curprev 12:2112:21, 4 June 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 74,667 bytes +46‎ →‎More on && and ||
• curprev 12:2112:21, 4 June 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 74,621 bytes +78‎ →‎More on && and ||
• curprev 12:1912:19, 4 June 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 74,543 bytes +78‎ →‎More on && and ||
• curprev 12:1712:17, 4 June 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 74,465 bytes +11‎ →‎Conditional execution
• curprev 12:1712:17, 4 June 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 74,454 bytes +1,492‎ →‎Conditional execution
• curprev 11:5311:53, 4 June 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 72,962 bytes +458‎ →‎Some practical tests
• curprev 11:3511:35, 4 June 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 72,504 bytes −80‎ →‎On empty/missing arguments

9 May 2019

• curprev 13:1313:13, 9 May 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 72,584 bytes +5‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 13:1313:13, 9 May 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 72,579 bytes +98‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 13:1213:12, 9 May 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 72,481 bytes +85‎ →‎Return codes
• curprev 13:0913:09, 9 May 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 72,396 bytes +138‎ →‎Return codes

18 February 2019

• curprev 14:0714:07, 18 February 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 72,258 bytes −46‎ →‎Return codes

29 January 2019

• curprev 13:0113:01, 29 January 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 72,304 bytes −51‎ →‎Backgrounding processes
• curprev 13:0113:01, 29 January 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 72,355 bytes −7‎ →‎More notes
• curprev 13:0013:00, 29 January 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 72,362 bytes +37‎ →‎More notes
• curprev 13:0013:00, 29 January 2019‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ m 72,325 bytes +429‎ →‎Test whether command exists