Learn Difference Between $$ and $BASHPID in Bash
Recently I was working on a shell script and I saw a significant difference in how bash special variable $ and BASHPID behaves. Every process running in Linux will be …
How To Enable Timestamp In Bash History In Linux
You can easily find the list of recently executed commands in Linux using history command, right? Yes. But how do you know the time at which the command was executed? …
A Bash Function To Extract File Archives Of Various Types
There are so many applications available to extract various types of archive files. Remembering all options and parameters of each archive tool would be difficult for you. No worries! Today, …
Difference Between Defining Bash Variables With And Without export
I’ve added this “export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups” line in ~/.bashrc file to avoid duplicate entries in Bash history in my Linux desktop. Did you notice that I prefixed the HISTCONTROL variable with …
How To Avoid Duplicate Entries In Bash History In Linux
In this brief guide, we will learn how to avoid duplicate entries in Bash history in Linux. When working from commandline, you might have run some Linux commands multiple times. …
[Bash Tips] Rename Files Without Typing Full Name Twice In Linux
This brief guide explains how to rename files without typing full name twice in Linux operating systems. As we all already know, we use mv command to rename files in …
Bash Tips – How to cp or mv and cd in one command
by sk · Published April 8, 2020 · Updated April 8, 2020 The other day we learned how to cd and ls in one command. Today we will see yet …