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Welcome to the next pikoTutorial! Bash comes with a bunch of useful, built-in commands. One of them is timeout which allows you to run another command with a time limit. The syntax is simple: timeout [duration] [target_command] To avoid providing la...
Welcome to the next pikoTutorial! Linux terminal is a basic tool for many software engineers and the place where we often spend a lot of our time during the work day. Even if you're not doing anything in the terminal right now, it is for sure opened ...
Welcome to the next pikoTutorial! Conversion from hexadecimal to decimal Add the following function to your .bashrc file: function todec { echo "ibase=16; $1" | bc } Usage: ~$ todec AA12CE 11145934 Conversion from decimal to hexadecimal Add the...
Welcome to the next pikoTutorial! What is hash? The hash command in Linux is a built-in shell utility used to optimize the execution of commands by recording paths of the invoked commands, so subsequent executions don't need to search through the PAT...
Welcome to the next pikoTutorial! What is a hard link? A hard link is essentially an additional name for an existing file on a file system. Unlike symbolic (soft) links, which point to a file by its path name, hard links are direct pointers to the fi...
Welcome to the next pikoTutorial! Basic usage At its most basic, the sort command sorts lines in a file alphabetically. For example, if you have a file named data.txt, you can print its sorted content with: sort data.txt Of course, such console outp...
