Generally head command used to print the starting lines of the any text file.we can view the text file with . head filename.txt That will prints the 1st 10 lines of the above text file. If you want to specific on the number of lines which are to be view then you can use head as. head …

opening file path/to/somefile.txt of type text/plain with gedit.desktop finished script which tells me that the path to the file is ok, the mimetype is recognized and the desktopfile which is used to open the file is ok as well. And gedit opens with the file in question. Now when run on another file: my_open.sh path/to/README

To open a bash file for editing (something with an .sh suffix) you can use a text editor like nano. nano filename.sh. If you want to run a bash script you can do it in several ways. ./filename.sh. or . sh filename.sh. Best, Lev

Jan 28, 2020 · Random.sh is not a shell script file. Linux does not use extensions to determine file types. It is a text file, possibly containing assorted shell commands. Might be executable, might be empty, but xdg-open should open it as a text file. Unless, of course, you have managed to create a association to execute it. –

Jul 21, 2022 · Use >> to append to the file instead of truncating it. The file would be opened once only. You can do the same with any other compond command: if [ -e file ]; then echo 'file exists' else echo 'file does not exist' fi >out.log { echo 'line 1' cat some-file echo 'last line' } >lines.txt

In a folder hierarchy I have exactly one file of type xyz. I want to find that file and open it with a terminal command. find . -name *.xyz This will return the file I'm looking for. Now how do I open it automatically, without typing the name? find . -name *xyz | open This doesn't work. It says it doesn't found the open command.

Nov 20, 2011 · $ cat pdf #! /bin/bash gnome-open ${1:-*.pdf} When you call pdf it will open all pdfs in the current directory, specify which pdf by supplying an argument. I have many directories containing but one pdf file (e.g. so many LaTeX directories) so only having to write pdf saves me quite some time and keystrokes.

Jan 29, 2022 · How can I read an .env file and set the variables as bash variables? Currently, I'm able to read it and export them as environment variables. If the file contains the variables: DB_NAME=mydb DB_PASSWORD=abcd1234 Then, DB_NAME and DB_PASSWORD will be bash variables and they will contain the respective values.

Mar 19, 2011 · The following works in all desktop environments by using the default file manager: xdg-open . Solution 2. You can also open files from the terminal as if you had double clicked them in the file manager: xdg-open file Solution 3. If you are using Gnome, you can use the gnome-open command, like so: gnome-open . Solution 4

Jan 6, 2016 · The primary purpose of OS X's open command is to open a file in the associated application. The equivalent of that on modern non-OSX unices is xdg-open. xdg-open index.html xdg-open doesn't have an equivalent of OSX's open -a to open a file in specific application. That's because the normal way to open a file in an application is to simply type ...