ZSH (Z-Shell) is an advanced, interactive shell for Unix systems, known for its improvements over the standard bash shell, including features like advanced tab completion, theme support, and scripting enhancements. How do I install ZSH on Ubuntu? To install ZSH on Ubuntu, use the command `su...
In the previous examples, we explicitly listed the values to be iterated by thefor loop, which works just fine. However, you can only imagine how cumbersome and time-consuming a task it would be if you were to iterate over, for example, a hundred values. This would compel you to type ...
As we are using Ubuntu’s GUI desktop system, we need to log in using the command line to see the MOTD custom message we just created. So there are two ways to do that: either switch to the command line interface on your current GUI Ubuntu or log in using SSH on any other system....
4.The next step asks you to testUbuntubefore installing it, choose “Try Ubuntu“, which allows you to use Ubuntu from the USB drive without making any changes to your computer’s hard drive. Try Ubuntu or Install Ubuntu 5.If you’re ready to installUbuntu, select “Install Ubuntu” and...
NOTE By default, most distributions do not include the tools necessary to compile C code because these tools occupy a fairly large amount of space. If you can’t find some of the tools described here, you can install the build-essential package for Debian/Ubuntu or the Chapter 15 yum group...
The Bash shell provides the noexec shell option which can be set either with set -o noexec or using set -n. This option will make the Bash shell only read the commands but will not execute them, neither will it do a variable assignment. In short, this is a basic “no-op” or “dr...
How to Use disown Command in Linux For a better understanding first, we need to create jobs using the terminal. Execute the following commands to create a job in Ubuntu 20.04: pinglinuxhint.com>/dev/null& Note:/dev/null is the temporary null file that stores the ping data in it. ...
I am always suspicious when a 3rd party tool needs root privileges to run properly. On early Ubuntu distribution (for example), to use shc without root privileges you need to use the -T argument. (Try the following to see if you need the -T switch: $ strace strace -p $$) ...
PowerShell for Ubuntu 16.04 and below In case, if you are still using old Ubuntu version, first you have to enable Snap. To do that follow the command: sudo apt install snapd snapd-xdg-open Now you can use the above command to install PowerShell. For more information –How to enable...
In shell scripting,($)is used to access the value of variables, while in Awk,($)is used only when accessing the contents of a field, not for accessing the value of variables. Use Awk to Print Columns from File To print entire columns from a file, we can employ a similar approach by...