Hello I'm new to the Linux system and would like to know if there is a code or application which opens a terminal that will tell me the lines of code being used.  For example, If I were to open a folder or directory I would like to know the lines of code associated with it.
123740
For example, I normally open mousepad (xfce equivalent of gedit) from the applications menu. However, I know that you can also do this in a terminal by typing mousepad.   Following this example, what I want is whenever I open mousepad via GUI, a new line is written in a log file stating something like Sep 5 15:35:11 lucho@lucho:~$ mousepad. More in general, what I want is to log all GUI activities that are potentially do-able via command-line (like opening programs, changing permissions, modifying a system settings, etc) but written in its alternative command-line execution format. I want this in order to improve my knowledge of how to use the command-line (without going through the man pages). There are many things I do through the GUI which I don't do via command-line (some potentially automatable via a script or via keyboard shortcuts) and having this log file would be a good way to learn them.  I'm aware of the existence of the syslog file in /var/log but that is not what I need. The Activity Log Manager app from Ubuntu repositories does not show command-line format, so far as I know. I need something like the .bash_history file that exist in my home folder but recording my GUI-based activities.
13962
I often see things like     read man xyz   For more information read xyz's man page.   see info xyz    so I wonder:   How can I get help on terminal commands generally? What exactly are these man and info pages?   How can I find and view them?
88760
I'd like to know which libraries are used by executables on my system. More specifically, I'd like to rank which libraries are used the most, along with the binaries that use them. How can I do this?
58754
I often run commands in parallel that take a long time to finish and sometimes I lose track of what is running where since they output basically the same sort of information on screen.   Do you know of any way to find out what command is running in what terminal?
119826
On several Unix servers, I have seen below behavior:   I list all the files using ls -lrt: 3 files are being shown up  I open one of the files using vi editor  I close the open file   Now in some Unix system, I can still see the earlier screen as it is as in point 2 (listing those 3 files, ls -lrt output as it is) whereas on some systems, the text of recently opened file is printed.   I want to know which setting in profile or some *rc file this behavior depends.
76072
In my terminal prompt definition in my .bashrc file, among other things, I have this snippet of code:  ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}   What does this do, and do I need it?
64022
How can a user determine the path to an application being showed in launcher?  This is meant for non-programmers or experts, so terminal commands are not really suited for them. Why: we need to make our users able to drag files/folders on our applications, a standard OS feature entirely missing in Ubuntu.
74100
I am new to Ubuntu, and was wondering whether it is posible to open a terminal with a path matching your current location in the file manager? In Windows it was very easy, but how do you do it in Linux?
50320
What can I type at my shell (which happens to be bash) that will list all the commands that are recognized?  Also, does this differ by shell? Or do all shells just have a "directory" of commands they recognize?  Secondly, different question, but how can I override any of those? In other words how can I write my own view command to replace the one existing on my Ubuntu system, which appears to just load vim.
21593
When you drop to the terminal via Applications -&gt; Terminal or Ctrl+Alt+F1 etc. bash is used by default to interpret your commands. If you wish to use another command interpreter (like zsh or fish), how do you get this to start as default?
6734
While executing a C program, a.out, using the Ubuntu terminal, why do I always need to type ./ before a.out, instead of just writing a.out? Is there solution for this?
829
Hello I want to remove software (for example transmission) using Terminal. How can i find the package name for the software ?
87161
I have a complex embedded Linux software running on a gentoo derivative, on which a certain piece of code gets executed regularly every ~84 minutes. Sweeping through the main code to find places where this code might get executed was unsuccessful, and crontab also seems no possible explanation.   My question: Is it possible, by modifying the code in question, to find out which other process/code/file/service started it in the first place? Are there some information in the /proc directory I can use? Or is it impossible to find out the process that executed the given code?
77425
As a Unix beginner, I often find myself wanting to know the name of the command that achieves a particular function I'm after. How can I go about finding out the name of the command, given a description of what it does?
83186
Often times I will ssh into a new client's box to make changes to their website configuration without knowing much about the server configuration. I have seen a few ways to get information about the system you're using, but are there some standard commands to tell me what version of Unix/Linux I'm on and basic system information (like if it is a 64-bit system or not), and that sort of thing?  Basically, if you just logged into a box and didn't know anything about it, what things would you check out and what commands would you use to do it?
70290
I often lose track of the command flow due to the long text output of some commands, so I would like to have a main terminal window where user commands are executed and other terminal windows that „pop up“ displaying the commands' output and then are closed with the use of a short-cut.  Is it possible to code such a behavior? Any tips about the language I should use?  An even more user-friendly interaction would be for the terminal to ask whether it should display the output externally if it exceeds a user-set limit.
85719
I want to output a file's contents while they change, for example if I have the file foobar and I do:  magic_command foobar  The current terminal should display the file's contents and wait until, I don't know, I press ^C.  Then if from another terminal I do:  echo asdf &gt;&gt; foobar  The first terminal should display the newly added line in addition to the original file contents (of course, given that I didn't press ^C).