Commands tagged built-in (4)
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This is shorter and actually much faster than >/dev/null (see sample output for timings) Plus, it looks like a disappointed face emoticon. Show Sample Output
22<COMMAND> |: -
I've had a horrible time trying to pipe the output of some shell built-ins like 'time' to other programs. The built-in doesn't output to stdout or stderr most of the time but using the above will let you pipe the output to something else. Show Sample Output
1TIME=$( { time YOUR_COMMAND_HERE; } 2>&1 ) ; echo $TIME -
Finds executable and existing directories in your path that can be useful if migrating a profile script to another system. This is faster and smaller than any other method due to using only bash builtin commands. See also: + http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/743/list-all-execs-in-path-usefull-for-grepping-the-resulting-list + http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html Show Sample Output
1for p in ${PATH//:/ }; do [[ -d $p && -x $p ]] && echo $p; done
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