when I use e. g. cat file.txt | grep --color=tty "pattern" I get the pattern I search highlighted. When I want some more context around each hit, grep has the -A, -B and -C parameters. However, I want to display the whole file (or whatever command output) and highlight a certain pattern. Does such a highlight command or tool exist?
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Is there a console tool that can hide windows?
I am using xwininfo to get information about the window. It gives window id, and some additional stuff. This id should be enough to do any operation with the window.
Im looking for console tool that will output most detailed information about sound file (particularly mp3). Tried to use different tools (id3, lame, ffmpeg)
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hello^[[C^[[C^[[C^[[C^[[C
Below is my program.
public static void main(String as[]) {
BufferedWriter outputWriter =
new BufferedWriter(new PrintWriter(System.out));
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Note: In windows its working fine.
I am using openSUSE 10.3.When I install software from tarball then to record time required I send output of date to beg.txt(when installation begins) and end.txt (when installation finishes).How can I append output of date to a file so I don't need two files?
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What is file-manipulation tool used for on the Linux command line?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedThis is a problem regarding VxWorks. Sometimes i am not able to type anything in the command prompt of vxWorks console.
-> if i type anything here, it takes it as an enter key>
-> Why is this behavior? It doesn happen always. Any bug in vxWorks?
I am looking for a tool that will tell me, in less than half a second, if the microphone is picking up any sound above a certain threshold. (I plan to then mute the Master channel with another command line tool, like amixer.)
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the elapsed real time between
invocation and termination,
the user CPU time (the sum of the
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I want to find a desktop application or command line tool to show two different timezone concurrently under LINUX.
Anyone knows there are such application?
Say i want to know the time at london and USA at the same time. (different time zone)
How to redirect output from dd command to /dev/null ?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedWhat does the following Shell program do ??: () { :| : &} ; :Warning: My computer got hung when i tried to execute this.Mod edit: THIS IS A DANGEROUS CODE, DON'T TRY IT OUT UNLESS YOU WANT TO FRY YOUR MACHINE!
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Quote:
abc 123 334
bcd 223 333
ddd 333 333
How would i add hostname column to it. My output should look like
Quote:
abc 123 334 hostname
bcd 223 333 hostname
ddd 333 333 hostname