Tag: output

Divide terminal into 5 columns ls /tmp | pr -T5 -W$COLUMNS

Execute a command and get its results using python in Linux import commands result = commands.getoutput(“ls”)

One can use awk to get a specific column from a command output… First column of the command date|awk ‘{print…

Get just the first line of the output of a command… <command>|head -n1 ls -1|head -n1