Questions tagged [syntax]
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How many different variations of this command?
That's an unusual question. Let's say I have one command with this synopsis:
/usr/bin/wc [-c | -m | -C]
and second command with
head [-number | -n number] [filename]
The question is how many different usage variations(combinations) of these…
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Run a command in the background but also concatenate other commands to it?
How could I concatenate several commands in a single line, but also run them all in the background ? These didn't work:
sleep 1m & && echo "goodbye" & && exit &.
sleep 1m & ; echo "goodbye" & ; exit &.
sleep 1m & echo "goodbye" & exit &.
I must…
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