The Linux fold command can break long lines of text into pieces, but it can also be used to create arguments for looping in scripts. The Linux fold command enables you to break a string of characters ...

[user@host ~]$ echo $(echo test) test [user@host ~]$ myhomedirsize=$(du -hs ~) [user@host ~]$ echo $myhomedirsize 33K /home/user I think the main reason is that it is ...

I feel kinda silly here. I realize that I’ve never made a while loop in MySQL or MariaDB. Now that I’m actually trying to do it, it’s proving to be quite the task. Normally I would do all of this in ...

You can run a series of Linux commands to copy multiple files to a folder or copy a single file to multiple folders, but you can save time and trouble by using xargs, loops and scripts. Using a series ...