Running a Command on Each Item in a List

Easily run a command on each item in a list - think list of filenames for example.

October 9, 2022 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
cli

Redirect Output When You Don't Have Permission to

How to redirect output from a command you’ve run to a file that you don’t have permission to write to i.e. to a destination that you need to use sudo on.

September 2, 2022 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
cli

Fetch Process IDs or Names of the Processes Listening On Ports

Fetch Process IDs or Names of the Processes Listening On Ports.

August 28, 2022 · 2 min · lukefilewalker
cli

Using The File Command to Identify a File

Using the file command to identify a file’s type on a *nix system.

August 8, 2022 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
cli

Manually Upgrading All Qt5 Packages on FreeBSD

How to manually upgrade all QT5 packages on FreeBSD with xargs.

October 17, 2019 · 2 min · lukefilewalker
cli os

Creating an Empty File in *nix as Well as Windows in the CLI

How to create an empty file from the CLI in *nix as well as Windows

August 2, 2016 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
cli os

Get Your External IP Address From the CLI

How to get your external IP address on the CLI.

December 28, 2015 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
cli

Delete All Files Except for a Particular Extension

How to delete all the files in the current directory except for files of a certain extension.

December 15, 2015 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
cli

Using Sed to Find and Replace a String in a File

Find and replace using the *nix tool sed.

November 27, 2015 · 1 min · lukefilewalker
cli

Copy and Paste to and From the Clipboard in the CLI

How to copy and paste to and from the clipboard while working in the CLI.

October 23, 2015 · 2 min · lukefilewalker
cli