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Tells you where a command is in your $PATH, but also wether it's a link and to what.

You may also use the $(which foo) variant instead of backticks. I personnaly have an alias ll='ls -l'. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
# ls -l `which gimp`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul  2 10:33 /usr/bin/gimp -> gimp-2.6
```
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ls -l `which foo`

adeverteuil · 2010-07-09 01:34:02 5
Mark a directory as one where something failed

If you use colored ls(1), the broken symbolic links significantly differ from regular files and directories in the ls listing. In my case it is bright red. 0 is for getting the first place in the list.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

fail () { ln -s /nonexistent 0_FAIL_${1}; }

pipeliner · 2011-11-06 20:14:33 4
Symlink most recent file to 'latest' using full paths.
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ln -s "`find /path -type f -iname $(ls -t /path | head -1 )`" /path/latest

logikal · 2011-12-21 07:20:17 4
Batch symbolic links creation

Replace '/tmp/file 1.txt' '/tmp/file 2.jpg' with "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS" for Nautilus script Or with %F for Thunar action If you linking the symlinks itself, but want to link to source files instead of symlinks, use "`readlink -m "$i"`" instead of "$i" like this: for i in '/tmp/file 1.txt' '/tmp/file 2.jpg'; do ln -s "`readlink -m "$i"`" "$i LINK"; done ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Show Sample Output
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```
'/tmp/file 1.txt LINK'
'/tmp/file 2.jpg LINK'
```
0

for i in '/tmp/file 1.txt' '/tmp/file 2.jpg'; do ln -s "$i" "$i LINK"; done

qwertyroot · 2013-08-02 08:30:50 11
turn url and link text into a hyperlink

an extension of command 9986 by c3w, allows for link text. http://google.com,search engine will link the hyperlink with the text after the url instead of linking with the url as linktext Show Sample Output
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```
<a href="http://google.com">search engine</a>
```
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sed "s/$[a-zA-Z]*\:\/\/[^,]*$,$.*$/\<a href=\"\1\"\>\2\<\/a\>/"

chrismccoy · 2012-01-06 13:55:05 14

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Splits the input based on commas and prints it in a nice column format. This would not work for CSV rows that have "," between quotes or with newline characters. Use only simple simple csv files.

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