Here is a simple example on how to display date/watch with simple bash command:
$ while true; do clear; date; sleep 1; done
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I always keep forgetting this bash syntax redirection. This is because of my short memory and also because I do not use it often. In many cases we need to remove a STDERR from the command output and keep only STDOUT. On the other hand there are times that we want to see STDERR and [...]
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Using a bash command “set” we can prevent bash redirection to overwrite existing files. If the file bash.txt exist this command will overwrite it:
ls > bash.txt
To prevent it we can run command:
set -C
to disable run command:
set +o noclobber
Example:
$ ls > bash.txt
$ set -C
$ ls > bash.txt
bash: bash.txt: cannot overwrite existing file
$ [...]
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