ls full path

How do you get the Unix command ls to show you the full path? Unfortunately there’s no argument for ls that will do this directly. However this will work fine and give you what you want. ls -d $PWD/* or ls -ld $PWD/*

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How to control or throttle SCP file transfer speed

I wanted to control how fast SCP copy data between two Linux servers. On a Linux system this can easily be achieved using the “SCP -l” switch. In my case I had to make sure to not exceed 0.5 Mbit/s Since the “-l” parameter uses Kbit/s the correct value in my case is 500 scp …

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How to automatically provide an answer to Unix commands

How do you automatically provide an answer to a Unix command for example cp: overwrite `destination/./b.txt’? Many Unix/Linux commands that operate on files may stop and ask for confirmation for each file before completing an action. Of course for many Unix/Linux commands there are parameters that allows you to specify the desired behavior, but there …

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