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Using programs and commands that do not have a graphical user interface (GUI) but are rather controlled by typing text commands into a terminal program, or shell.

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Seeking shell-scripting resources for the visual learner

I'm trying to teach myself shell scripting. I understand things best when I see them in the context of a system, especially when I can visualize that system. I'm looking for a visual companion to Appl …
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Seeking shell-scripting resources for the visual learner

Here's a site that helped, and one of its diagrams: (source: flowblok.id.au) .
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Shell scripting: Why does only the "-" hyphen throw an error?

Goal: Cleaning up Selectively truncate filenames in my nvALT notes folder. I tried using a productivity blogger's suggestion (which eludes me after a thorough search) to prepend ^ > - + to filenames, …
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Shell scripting: Select folder based on part of file name

My project I'm creating a bash shell script to execute from the Terminal. Its purpose is to archive lots and lots of project folders. Each folder follows a prescribed nomenclature: [YYYY.MM.DD] - Med …
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Shell script: Move folders + preserve structure

My goal I organize my projects into folders. These folders all live in my Completed projects folder. I am beginning to archive them into an Archived Projects folder, and I want to archive them in sub …