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• Visudo
  '''visudo''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line tool]] that edits the '''[[sudoers]]''' file in a safe fashion. The <code>s [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Sudoers
  '''sudoers''' is a [[:Category:Linux Files|file]] (typically located at <code>/etc/sudoers</code>) containing a [[Category:Linux Files]]
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• Rdiff-backup
  ...de> can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like [[Rsync (command)|rsync]]. Thus you can use <code>rdiff-backup</code> and [[ssh]] to securel * In most cases, the command
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• GnuPlot
  '''GnuPlot''' is a versatile [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line]] programme that can generate two- and three-dimensional plots of functions ..., and then a third shell running ghostview to view the eps file. To load a command file:
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• Sed
  ...pecified in its simple language (the ''sed script''), and then outputs the line. ...le applying the whole list of edit commands to each line. Because only one line at a time is in memory, sed can process text files with an arbitrarily-larg
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• Grep
  ...ular expression / print) is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line utility]] that for a given a list of files or standard input to read, grep ....gnu.org/software/grep/ GNU grep] &mdash; the grep that usually comes with Linux distributions
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• Chcase
  ...ry:Linux Command Line Tools|command line tool]]) used to rename files in [[linux]]. You can change filenames to either all upper or all lower case, or speci This is a useful command (or "script") for renaming multiple filenames at once.
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• Miscellaneous commands
  ...of these will be simple [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line tools]]. Eventually, many of these will have their own article. For now, they are ...Google Search Manual] and [http://projects.felipc.com/gcl/ Google command line help] for more tricks.
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• Fdupes
  ...ne tool]]) used to find duplicate files in a given set of directories in [[linux]]. ; <tt>-1 --sameline</tt> : list each set of matches on a single line
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• Cdrtools
  <tt>cdrtools</tt> has been forked as DVD-R Tools. ==List of tools==
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• Internetwork Routing Protocol Attack Suite
  The '''Internetwork Routing Protocol Attack Suite''' (IRPAS) is a set of tools for detecting and perpetrating (white-hat) attacks on computer networks. [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Mvs
  '''mvs''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line]] Mediawiki client. [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Sed/scripts
  The following is a compilation of '''useful one-line scripts for [[sed]]'''. The original was compiled by Eric Pement (29-Dec-20 ...y has blank lines in it. Output file should contain no more than one blank line between lines of text.
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• Sed/manpage
  * specify the desired line-wrap length for the '<tt>l</tt>' command -l N, --line-length=N
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• Coreutils
  ...any of the basic tools such as [[cat ((command))|cat]], [[ls]], and [[rm ((command))|rm]] needed for Unix-like operating systems. ...as the GNU philosophy shifts information away from manual pages (and uses tools such as <tt>[[texinfo|info]]</tt>), usage information is more extensive.
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• Named pipe
  ...is an extension to the traditional [[pipeline (Linux)|pipe]] concept in [[Linux]] systems. A traditional pipe is "unnamed" because it exists anonymously an == Named pipes in Linux ==
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• Redirection (Linux)
  '''Redirection''' is a function common to most [[Linux]] [[shell]]s which allow standard streams to be redirected to user-specifie ...our screen. Standard output (STDOUT) captures the normal output of a given command. Standard error (STDERR) captures most failures and error conditions.
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• Nohup
  ...signal, enabling the command to keep running after the user who issues the command has logged out. It is most often used to run commands in background as daem ...p</tt> runs the given ''COMMAND'' with hangup signals ignored, so that the command can continue running in the background after you log out.
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• LAMP on Mandriva
  ...article, I will describe how to setup a [[LAMP]] environment on [[Mandriva Linux]] (version 2007.1). ...ing is required by [[ISPConfig]]. We can change this by commenting out the line skip-networking in <code>/etc/my.cnf</code>:
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• Axel
  '''axel''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line tool]] similar to [[wget]]. The difference is that it is both an accelerato [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• .netrc
  ...matches the remote machine specified on the ftp command line or as an open command argument. Once a match is made, the subsequent .netrc tokens are processed, ...ditional account password, or the auto-login process will initiate an ACCT command if it does not.
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• Expect (command)
  '''Expect''' is a [[Linux]] automation and testing tool, written by Don Libes, for interactive applic ...'''send''', and '''expect'''. These allow a script to control command-line tools originally designed to interact only with a human. For example, programs w
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• Dialog (command)
  '''dialog''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command utility]] to create nice user interfaces from [[Bash|shell scripts]], or ot [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Sgrep
  ...by Jani Jaakkola and Pekka Kilpeläinen. It is included in the [[SuSE]] [[Linux]] package. Like [[Grep (command)|grep]], sgrep can be used for any kind of text files. However it is most u
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• Secure Shell
  ''Note: See the [http://linux.die.net/man/5/ssh_config ssh_config (5) man page] for details.'' ~C - open a command line
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• Units (command)
  '''units''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line]] unit conversion program. ...the program interactively with prompts, or you can use it from the command line.
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• Lsof
  '''lsof''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line tool]] that is used to report a list of all open files and the processes th ...pes, network sockets and devices opened by all processes. One use for this command is when a disk cannot be unmounted because (unspecified) files are in use.
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• Dwdiff
  ...nd for the [[diff]] program that operates at the word level instead of the line level. It is different from [[wdiff]] in that it allows the user to specify [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Urpmi
  ...va Linux]] package management [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line tool]] for installing, removing, updating and querying software packages of urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/Mandrakelinux/official/2007.1/i586/media/main/release with me
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• Xmerge
  ...e''' is a [[image stitching]] [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line tool]] developed by Johan Borg. ==Command line options==
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• Linux directory structure
  ...s and their contents in Linux operating systems. More simply, it is the '''Linux directory structure'''. ...wever, that some of these directories may or may not be present on a given Linux system as they depend on whether certain subsystems, such as the X Window S
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• WvWare
  [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Fail2ban
  [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Expr
  '''expr''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line]] utility which evaluates an expression and outputs the corresponding value ...st of the challenge posed in writing expressions is preventing the command line shell from acting on characters intended for ''expr'' to process.
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• Perl
  ...is an excerpt from '<code>man perlrun</code>' about the important command line switches used when doing perl one-liners. split command to the @F array is done as the first thing inside the
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• Rdate
  '''rdate''' is a TCP/IP [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command]] used to retrieve the date and time from a host or hosts on the network an [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Findutils
  ==Findutils tools== The tools supplied with this package are:
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• Dmesg
  ...sg''' (for "diagnostic message") is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command]] that prints the message buffer of the kernel. This buffer contains a vari [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• WikiSH
  '''WikiSH''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line]] wiki using only [[Bash|/bin/sh]] and plain [[Awk]]. It also includes a Wi [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Bioinformatics resource list
  * absolutely '''''must''''' work on [[Linux]]; * preferably CLI-friendly (i.e. able to run entirely from the command-line); and
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• Mt
  '''mt''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command]] used to control and backup data onto magnetic tapes. * Backup directory /data and /home with [[Tar (command)|tar]] command (z - compressed; note the <code>/dev/nst0</code>; '<code>nst0</code>' ''not
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• SuSE wireless card configuration
  <google>suse linux wireless</google> ...Unfortunately, it didn't work. That is, using either Yast2 or the command line options (e.g. <tt>ifconfig</tt>, <tt>iwconfig</tt>, etc) and DHCP just didn
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• ISO Images
  ...will be done from the CLI (or [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line]]). ...holds the files you place in your ISO image. Then use the <tt>mkisofs</tt> command.
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• Xls2csv
  '''xls2csv''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line]] script that recodes a spreadsheet's charset and saves as CSV. It was writ [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Firefox
  *Clear your Download history to make the download manager more responsive: Tools | Options | Privacy. ...event a website from replacing/changing your rightclick context menu go to Tools>Options>content>Advanced on Firefox 2+.
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• GParted
  ...ports the following filesystems: ext2, ext3, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, reiserfs, reiser4, ufs, xfs, and even ntfs (Windows). [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Style and Diction
  ...'diction''' are two [[Linux]] [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command-line]] linguistic utilities. They are part of the GNU software suite. ...u.org/software/diction/diction.html GNU Style and Diction] &mdash; Command line programs to calculate score
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• Ptx
  '''ptx''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command-line]] utility to produce a permuted index of file contents similar to a '''[[KW -F, --flag-truncation=STRING use STRING for flagging line truncations
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• Dbacl
  ...t line. It is sometimes useful to see the posterior probabilities for each line without filtering: You can now postprocess the posterior probabilities for each line of text with another script, to replicate an arbitrary Bayesian decision r
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• Dd (command)
  '''dd''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command-line]] utility whose primary purpose is the low-level copying and conversion of ...f'''=''file'' : Input File: Read from ''file'' instead from [[Redirection (Linux)|standard input]].
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• Shred
  '''shred''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command-line]] utility to overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete i ...l. If the info and shred programs are properly installed at your site, the command
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• Tex2im
  ...t; possible examples: gif, jpg, tif (all formates supported by "[[Convert (command)|convert]]" should work; default: png Then type on the command line:
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• Linux HDD
  ...(for Windows). If you are like me, you will want this HDD formatted for [[Linux]]. *Step 1: Getting Linux to discover the newly connected external HDD
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• Iptables
  ...that allows a system administrator to configure the tables provided by the Linux kernel firewall (implemented as different Netfilter modules) and the chains ...and must be executed by user root, otherwise it fails to function. On most Linux systems, iptables is installed as <tt>/usr/sbin/iptables</tt> and documente
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• Pax
  *[[Mt (command)|mt]] [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Update timezone files for earlier Daylight Savings Time
  Older [[Linux]] kernels are using the older definition of DST and the files that control To determine if your time zone has an issue, run this command (note that <code>zdump</code> might be located under <code>/sbin/zdump</cod
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• Dblatex
  '''dblatex''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line]] tool to convert DocBook to [[LaTeX]], DVI, [[PostScript]], and PDF. [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Flash motherboard BIOS
  ...otdisk version from the FreeDOS website (i.e. the one with just kernel and command.com), as it leaves more free space on disk for the flash utility and new BI [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Samba
  ...ne ("Samba client") has an IP address of <code>10.0.32.145</code>, and the Linux machine is behind a dedicated firewall (which does NAT). ...you will need to implement are <code>FORWARD</code> all "source" requests (Linux box) via TCP on ports 139 and 445 with a jump target of "<code>ACCEPT</code
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• Ngrep
  ...stands BPF filter logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, such as [[tcpdump]] and [[snoop]]. It was written by Jordan Ritter. *[http://logi.cc/linux/netfilter-log-format.php3 Netfilter]
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• Iftab
  ...k interface. Note: <code>/etc/iftab</code> is not used (by default) in all Linux distros. Each mapping is described on a separate line, it starts with an interface name, and contains a set of descriptors, separ
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• Crontab
  '''crontab''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line tool]] used to schedule commands to be executed periodically. It reads a se Each line of a crontab file follows a particular format as a series of fields, separa
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• Binutils
  ...GNU Binary Utilities''', or '''binutils''', is a collection of programming tools for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. The cur *<code>[[as (command)|as]]</code> &mdash; assembler
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• Readelf
  [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Linux kernel
  The '''kernel''' is the core piece of the [[Linux]] operating system. The kernel manages the resources of the Linux OS; such as the following:
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• RPM Package Manager
  ...erytags". To find out which querytags are available, execute the following command: ...o" in them (i.e., not version, release, arch, etc.), execute the following command
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• Recovery Is Possible
  ...and recovery applications. The disc is mainly oriented at the experienced Linux user that knows what he is doing, and thus does not contain automated scrip [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Fstab
  The following is an example of a fstab file on a Red Hat [[Linux]] system: # my files partition shared by windows and linux
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• Udev
  ...[kernel]] series. Its primary function is managing device nodes in <code>[[Linux directory structure|/dev]]</code>. It is the successor of <tt>devfs</tt> an ...]] interface of the Linux kernel which has been updated or introduced with Linux kernel 2.6.13. A system using such a new version of udev will not boot with
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• Common Unix Printing System
  == User Interface tools == There are several tools created to help set up CUPS. The CUPS server itself runs a webserver admini
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• List of GNU packages
  ...Many of these software packages are today included as part of typical GNU/Linux distributions. | useful library for reading command lines
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• GRUB
  ...ot/grub/menu.lst</code> and below the 'Pretty colours' section add a third line as below: *:[http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/grubsplash.html GRUB splash Image Information]; or
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• Mandriva Linux
  *[http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Errata Mandriva Linux 2008 Errata] [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• SoX
  ...written in standard C, with a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command-line interface]]. Here's what this terminal command does. It first takes the asz.aif file and outputs it as aszc.aif, subjecti
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• A2ps
  true if verbosity level includes the `tools' flag (See section 3.1.2 Global Options option `--verbosity'. enumeration of the command line options. In this case in in never used, but is replaced by the arguments.
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• CDfs
  '''CDfs''' is a virtual Linux file system that provides access to individual data and audio tracks on com Cdfs is not included in the mainline [[Linux]] [[kernel]], but is distributed instead as a series of kernel patches.
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• Diffutils
  ...ipedia:diff|diff]] : compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. ;[[:wikipedia:cmp (Unix)|cmp]] : shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or cmp can show the characters that differ
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• Hdparm
  ...mand line interface]] to various hard disk ioctls supported by the stock [[Linux]] ATA/IDE device driver subsystem. Some options may work correctly only wit [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Tar
  * Backup directory /data and /home with tar command (z - compressed; note the <code>/dev/nst0</code>; '<code>nst0</code>' ''not * Or, using the [[Dd (command)|dd]] command:
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• Littleutils
  ...peats), image optimizers (opt-jpg opt-png opt-gif recomp-jpg), file rename tools (lowercase uppercase), archive recompressors (to-bzip to-7zip to-lzma), a t [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Pic language
  [[category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Perl/Scripts
  The following is a compilation of '''useful one-line scripts for [[Perl]]'''. The original was compiled by Tom Christiansen, how ;-p : Execute the command for every line of the file.
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• Nmap
  *[[Network tools for Linux]] *[http://logi.cc/linux/netfilter-log-format.php3 Netfilter]
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• Mathomatic
  ==Mathomatic command reference== see: [http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/math/doc/am.html Mathomatic Command Reference]
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• Gp
  ...e them in a pipe as any other [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|Linux]] command or use them in a cgi script. All programs are written in ANSI C, and are su ...n a given sequence. You can either type the sequence directly as a command line argument, like
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• Subversion
  The article will cover the Subversion command-line client (or just '''svn''') for version >= 1.4.3. ...nts, recursing on the directories. If no arguments are supplied to such a command, it recurses on the current directory (inclusive) by default.
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• Autoconf
  [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Msec
  '''msec''' is a package of [[Mandriva Linux]] security tools. ity when called interactivelly (on the command line or from Mandriva
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• Ntop
  [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• BLAST
  ...ADME for stand-alone BLAST" document. It will only cover the process for [[Linux]] systems (and assume 32-bit OS).'' .../ (the archive will be called something like <code>ncbi-blast-2.2.25+-ia32-linux.tar.gz</code> for 32-bit versions).
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• Postfix
  ;<code>postlock</code>: lock mail folder and execute command [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Git
  ...figuration management project created by Linus Torvalds, initially for the Linux kernel development. $ man git-add # man page on the 'add' command
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• Ext3grep
  [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Umask
  [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Network tools for Linux
  ==List of network tools for Linux== ===Net-tools===
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• Ack
  --line=NUM Only print line(s) NUM of each file -o Show only the part of a line matching PATTERN
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• Pushd and popd
  ...inux Command Line Tools|command line tools]] used to work with the command line directory stack. ...time, optionally changing to a new directory. The '''<code>popd</code>''' command returns to the path at the top of the directory stack.
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• Globbing
  [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
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• Rpmbuild
  make linux-pgf77 make linux-gfortran
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• Tput
  ...he '''tput''' command in [[Linux]]. It is a standard Unix operating system command, which is used to set terminal features. *Tansley DSW (2000). "Creating screen output". ''Linux and UNIX shell programming''. Safari Tech Books Online. Addison-Wesley. ISB
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