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What does `>>` mean in terminal command?

I came across a command just now given below - $ echo 'eval "$(jenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile From what i can guess, it is probably used for committing the changes in .bash_profile but ...
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Execute `ls` whenever user does a `cd` on terminal [duplicate]

I know bashrc is executed on terminal startup. But my use case is something like this, To execute a specific command, say ls, whenever user executes another specific command, say cd, on the ...
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Is there a way to enable fuzzy Bash auto-completion like Intellij has?

I use Intellij a lot, and one of the features I love is the auto-completion. Notice how you can skip letters in your input and it guesses what you want based on those letters: Is there a way to ...
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In bash 4.3.27 "su" ignores user variables when combining "-" with "-c command"?

Since forever we used to launch user scripts from a different user crontab like this: 00 12 * * 1 su - user2 -c "/home/user2/myscript.sh" By doing this, the script is launched after the interactive ...
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Configure bash_profile for one single terminal emulator

I am using a new terminal emulator. Terminology is the E17 default terminal, and it has a great command: tyls which is a "graphical" ls I want to create an alias just for this terminal, because the ...
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Entered wrong .bash_profile and now my laptop is running hot

I am just learning how to use the command line and was editing the bash prompt setting in .bash_profile. I made an error in the prompt settings in .bash_profile and I lost the prompt and the ability ...
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Can't use command line – "command not found" after editing PATH

I'm running OS X Mavericks and was trying to install MAMP PRO 2.2. I was trying to configure the PATH variable to have the PHP binaries of MAMP PRO. I added the following line on my ~/.bash_profile ...
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Command line in OSX breaks when I edit bash_profile

Please help me, I am learning how to add sublime to command line from this link and when I created .bash_profile file, in the first line I typed export PATH= and saved it. My command line is broken. ...
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Change bash_profile path order

To use the right PHP version on my command line I want to change the $PATH of my command line profile. For now, the command line uses the standard system php file located in /usr/bin/. I want to use ...
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Why does OS X Lion's terminal treat the PS1 prompt codes differently than Snow Leopard?

I get different behaviors in terminal with the same prompt definition in Snow Leopard and Lion. On my Snow Leopard system, I define my terminal prompt in .profile as follows: export PS1='\[\e[32;1m\]...
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Is it possible to override the command line's built in "cd" command?

Just about every time I 'cd' to a different directory on my machine (in this case, running Mac OS X 10.6.7) via the command line (which is bash), I immediately type 'ls' to get the list of contents in ...
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How do I close an OS X application from the command line using a alias defined in my .bash_profile?

I found the following shell script that can be used to tell an OS X application to quit: #!/bin/sh echo | osascript <<EOF tell application "$*" quit end tell EOF I have several simple alias ...
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In bash on RHAS4, why would pressing delete toggle case instead of deleting?

I have an old RedHat box that I have to get some work done on: $ lsb_release -a LSB Version: 1.3 Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseWS Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant ...
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