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by Vivek Gite on June 26, 2011 · 0 comments

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Windows PowerShell vs UNIX BASH Shell

by Vivek Gite on July 16, 2008 · 1 comment

Shell scripting is fun. It is useful to create nice (perhaps ugly) things (read as solutions) in shell scripting. Now Windows got Powershell. But how does PowerShell measure up to traditional shells like Bash?

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An Interview With Chet Ramey – Maintainer Of Bash Shell

by Vivek Gite on May 30, 2008 · 0 comments

In this article ComputerWorld chat to Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash.

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Access Google Calendar From Linux / UNIX / Mac OS X Command Line Interface

by Vivek Gite on October 2, 2007 · 0 comments

I use Google Calendar exclusively. However to access this product you need to use a web browser. There is nice program called gcalcli (Google Calendar Command Line Interface) which allows to access Google Calendar from bash shell. Now I can see an agenda using a specified start/end time and date from a shell prompt over [...]

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Linux / UNIX: Determine where a binary command is stored / located on file system

by Vivek Gite on August 29, 2007 · 3 comments

You can use “type” or “whereis” command to find out which command shell executes and to print binary (command) file location for specified command. whereis command example Display ls command location along with man page path: whereis ls Output: ls: /bin/ls /usr/share/man/man1p/ls.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz type command example Find out which command the shell executes: type -a [...]

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nixCraft FAQ Roundup June 19, 2007

by Vivek Gite on June 19, 2007 · 0 comments

Recently updated/posted Linux and UNIX FAQ (mostly useful to Linux/UNIX new administrators or users) : Update Fedora 7 Linux OpenBSD install BASH shell package Star / Stop FTP server on FreeBSD / OpenBSD How to install Linux / UNIX *.tar.gz tarball files Install Language support in CentOS 5 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux Display or [...]

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HowTo: Add Pause Prompt In a Shell Script ( bash pause command )

by Vivek Gite on March 4, 2007 · 20 comments

Most of you may be aware of old good DOS/2000/XP pause command. It is used display the prompt. It is used within a computer batch file and allows the computer to pause the currently running batch file until the user presses any key.

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