I am using html2text from Github in-which I was able to run-it on all the .html files in my folder using for file in *.html; do html2text “$file” > “$file.txt”; done but it’s some-what slow. How can I use html2text with parallel on all my .html files? Answer The original answer was: The & sign at end of command tells
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Clear last two (and more) printed lines in Linux terminal emulator
I once saw a console app that visualized a progress of multiple downloads with multiple progressbars, each on its own line. I was curious how to do that, but I found only partial solutions. Here they are: One progressbar is easy It is easy to clear one line with “carriage return” and thus visualize one progress bar, as it is
How to add a string to line 13 in my text file
I have a very large text file that is difficult to open in text editors. Lines 12 – 15 are: I would like to add: 3 196 to line 14 and then have a blank line between 3 196 and Atoms like it is currently. I tried: But it did not seem to change anything. Anyone know of how I
How to copy a folder containing absolute symlinks and preserve their relative targets
Suppose I have a folder: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wxcrafter containing some library files and their corresponding symlinks, e.g: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wxcrafter/lib1.so.0 -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wxcrafter/lib1.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wxcrafter/lib2.so.0 -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wxcrafter/lib2.so.0.0.0 I want to make a copy of wxcrafter to a new location codeblocks, preserving the relative location of the symlink targets: usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/codeblocks/lib1.so.0 -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/codeblocks/lib1.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/codeblocks/lib2.so.0 -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/codeblocks/lib2.so.0.0.0 How do I do this on the command line, given that there
How to read file in linux command line?
I’m doing this challenge thing and this is one of the levels: An agent on Level 05 has told us about another big hack he’s working on. Apparently someone broke into a popular shopping site, stole all the usernames and passwords and was going to post them online. Luckily, we got to them first and recovered the details. Why is
How to terminate terminal that is connected to a AWS box but still leave process on?
I have ssh’d into a ubuntu AWS box via terminal on mac. I have successfully setup the process I want to run in the box. How do can exit out of terminal without killing the process running? Thank you in advance. P.S New to linux and terminal on mac Answer Personally I use screen to get in/out of the system
Is it possible to set an alias for a string?
As I’m so lazy, I don’t want to type 192.168.1 everytime anymore. I tried this: root@kali:~# alias “ip” = “192.168.1” That does not seem to work. As an example off what I try to accomplish: I don’t want to type this anymore: root@kali:~# hping3 -S –scan 1-1000 192.168.1.133 But instead shorter: root@kali:~# hping3 -S –scan 1-1000 ip.133 Answer add ip=”192.168.1″
What is “Recipe for target ‘gconfig’ failed” mean when I do “make xconfig” in Linux terminal?
I am really new on Linux drivers and I am trying to Compile Linux kernel 2.6, I did these steps so far on my Linux 4.0 1) I got Latest Linux kernel code for 2.x.y.z and Extract tar (.tar.bz3) file 2) Installed gcc, 3)Try to make below but all of them occurred with error: Error: Please help me to undrestand!
Copy first N files which start with ‘a’ ‘c’ or ‘e’ from one folder to another in Linux
I have many files in specified directory. For instance, I want to copy 6 of them to one location. I came up with this: The problem is that every file which starts with ‘a’ ‘c’ ‘e’ is copied. There should be first 6 files, but I receive 8 (4 with ‘a’, 3 with ‘c’ and 1 with ‘e’). I was
Why does the permission expression 653 mean rw- r-x -wx [closed]
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