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Is there any way to make "shortcuts" to programs on the linux mint terminal?
I'm trying to make a shortcut to sublime text, and I want to write something like "Sublime" and it opens automatically, is there any way to do this? I'm not finding it on google
Yes, use alias from bash:
alias sublime=/your/path/to/sublime/executable
And add the above line to your $HOME/.bashrc or $HOME/.bash_profile
You could create a symlink to the Sublime program:
ln -s /opts/sublime/sublime /home/ash/sublime
This assumes that your Sublime program be located at /opts/sublime/sublime and that you want the symlink to be located in your /home folder.
Now if you cd to your directory, you will see the symlink there:
cd /home/ash/
ls -l
/home/ash/sublime -> /opts/sublime/sublime
And if you want to run Sublime from your home folder you can just type:
sublime
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I'm trying to list the contents of /usr/bin having "ab" in their names.
I wrote the following command:
ls /usr/bin *ab*
But it didn't work.
Is there any other command that can be used to achieve my purpose?
Thank you.
Your command:
ls /usr/bin *ab*
asks ls to list two things: the contents of the /usr/bin directory as well as any files matching the wildcard *ab* in your current directory. If there aren't any files matching *ab* in your current directory, there's probably an error message before or after the listing of /usr/bin; if there are such files, they'll be listed. Instead, you want:
ls /usr/bin/*ab*
... which asks your shell to give ls the expanded list of files in /usr/bin that match the wildcard.
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After running a bad command my computer generates folders that start with "--". When I run ls I get something like:
workspace
--workspace
I don't know how to delete these folders through the command line.
rm -r --workspace does not work. I only have access to this machine through CLI so I can't delete them using the gui.
My OS is Linux 18.04
You need to tell rm to stop parsing and use your arguments verbatim. You do this by passing a final -- argument before the file or folder name.
rm -r -- --workspace
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Going through this tutorial, I had to execute the command export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH
It explained with
This command inserts the path, ~/.local/bin in this example, at the
front of the existing PATH variable.
However, I still don't understand what exactly is happening there. What is the goal/effect of that command?
This command prepend the folder ~/.local/bin (~ is your home folder) to your global variable $PATH (echo $PATH too see it).
Thanks to that, you'll be able to execute program/script stored in the folder ~/.local/bin without typing the full path.
Example, if you have a script myScript.sh in your folder, before adding ~/.local/bin to your $PATH, you can run it with the command:
~/.local/bin/myScript.sh
After adding ~/.local/bin to your $PATH, you can execute it with the command:
myScript.sh
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I am currently taking a Computing GCSE, and I have got a Linux Controlled Assessment, and this is one of the tasks:
Create a directory within your home directory. Name it A452. Navigate to your new A452 directory. Type touch mynametextfile, where myname is your
first name.
I tried adding a new folder called A452, and then opening the terminal and typing touch matthewtextfile, but that didn't work. I am very new to Linux, and I tried Wikipedia, so what should I do?
Edit: It turns out that it was in my Home folder, not my newly created one!
try this in your terminal:
$ cd ~ # move to your home directory
$ mkdir A452 # create directory named A452
$ cd A452 # mv to that directory
$ touch mynametextfile # create file "mynametextfile"
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while compiling the c++ programs in which i'm using the libxml library it is showing errors at the header files that no file or directory found. I have installed the library but it still showing errors. So i just type the above command after that every thing is working fine but i didn't understand it.
what is the meaning of "../" in UNIX? my command in UNIX is like this "sudo cp -r libxml ../" what it means? how to give relative addresses in UNIX and what are the different wildcard is used.
.. represents the parent directory. For example, if the current directory is /home/user/ the parent directory is /home
. represents the current directory
The command sudo cp -r libxml ../ copies the entire directory libxml in the parent directory.