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8 FAQ tagged "Bash"

• BASH: Prepend A Text / Lines To a File
  

  Q. I can append text to a file using >> operator but how do I prepend a text to a file? I want the opposit of >> operation?

• Linux: pathmunge Command in Shell Script
  

  Q. I see pathmunge used in few scripts under Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Can you explain the use of pathmunge under RHEL / CentOS / Fedora Linux?

• How do I Be More Productive In Vim?

  I’m just starting in vim text editor but I’m annoying typing and retyping similar statements. Can you address me about it?

• Configure BASH, KSH, TCSH, ZSH Shell To Logout User Automatically After Idle Time

  How can I configure the bash shell to logout any user automatically after a period of idle time under Debian Linux or any other UNIX like operating system?

• FreeBSD Install BASH Shell

  I’d like to bash under FreeBSD for bash programming. How do I install bash shell under FreeBSD UNIX operating system?

• Shell script put multiple line comment

  Q. I’d like to use multiline comments under shell script. Under C / C++ I can use format
  /*
  my c code
  comment # 2
  blah
  */
  How do I put multi line comment under a shell script?
  A. By default shell script can be commented out prefixing # character for example:
  # my comment
  For multilinecomment use
  # my comment 1
  # my comment [...]

• How to use bash shell

  Q. How do I use bash shell? What command I need to type use bash shell?
  A. GNU Bourne-Again Shell is default shell on most Linux systems (distributions). So when you open terminal from X Windows (KDE/Gnome) you directly opens a bash shell. Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from [...]

• Shell script to get the time difference

  Q. I am able to write PHP or Perl script where I can find out time difference between script executions. Now I have .shtml file that is nothing but a shell script outputting some data to browser. What I want is time difference or time it took to execute a script. How do I write [...]

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