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LLM-Agent User Interface
Is there such an agentic AI that interprets and executes commands from natural language input? I expect there is an agentic AI that executes commands from natural language input from humans. For ...
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turning list of file paths from one command into command-line arguments for another
I want to pass a list of file paths produced by one command (the KDE baloosearch6 program) as command-line arguments to another command (the KDE gwenview image viewer program). The age-old problem is ...
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linux shell ctrl-C doesn't work (using busybox)
I'm working on an arm64 system (Arm PL011) and I have ported linux 5.15.68 using u-boot-spl , busybox. In the past, I could use Ctrl-C in the linux shell by entering setsid cttyhack sh But somehow it ...
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How to limit the number of files printed by ls and print them in columns like ls prints normally?
Here is extension of the question: How do I limit the number of files printed by ls? with additional condition: how to print results in as many columns as fit to the current terminal width — as ls ...
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Why is `mv -f source target` so much slower than `rm -f target && mv source target`
I got a case where I need to overwrite some file with another and noticed a very significant slowdown when using "mv -f" if the target already exists and is being read. More specifically, ...
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Is the idea of having a login shell and a non-login shell merely a way of making user preferences? [duplicate]
Scouring the internet about the difference between a login shell and a non-login shell, it turns out that the ultimate difference is merely the files that are being sourced. A login shell sources some ...
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Is there an equivalent of caniuse for commands on posix systems?
I'm thinking about using a callout to the jq command in a utility script I'm writing, rather than parsing JSON manually. In order to make the script as portable as possible, I want to know which ...
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Play sound after command and also pipe output
I can easily pipe the output of a command like: some_command | less I can also easily play a sound after a command like: echo test; print \\a aplay, beep or others could also be used for sound. ...
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Shell: Customizing the "Display all N possibilities? (y or n)" message
I already know that double-pressing the Tab key on Bash terminal will enlist all files and folders in the current working directory or, when appropriate, show Linux executables that I can run. I want ...
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Bash terminal lagging one input behind
After a recent update, I've noticed that working on any terminal for more than a few minutes causes a delay between inputting a keypress and seeing it reflected on the screen. Specifically, if I were ...
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How to delete a directory whose name has special characters
My ./imap directory contains two folders with names containing special characters : ‘No’$‘\351’‘.sbd’ ‘S’$‘\351’‘gol’$‘\350’‘ne.sbd’ (these are the full names with no other characters added). The ...
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Where do I find documentation for the output of ls -l?
There have been multiple questions asked about this, like Understanding ls output, What are columns in ls -la?, What does 'ls -la' do?, What do the fields in ls -al output mean?, etc.. I've also come ...
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Permission denied error when starting terminal
I'm getting this error when I start my terminal: /home/USERNAME/.config/envman/PATH.env:2: permission denied: /home/USERNAME/.local/bin this is my .zshrc file: # Enable Powerlevel10k instant prompt. ...
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Order of shell expansions: command substitution versus arithmetic expansion
Consider the following snippet being entered at the command line in bash: $ echo $(( $(wc -l letter.txt | cut -c1-4)/66 + 1)) Supposing letter.txt exists and has 66*4 lines, then this puts the string ...
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Numbering files and restart for every folder in command line?
I use a little script to numbering files. I start it with a thunar custom action. This only works when all files are in the same directory. the new files name are 00001.ext to 00005.ext when I rename ...
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