command-line-interface

How would I 'attach' a console/terminal-view to an applications output so I can see what it may be saying? How would I detach from an applications output without killing the application? Normally if you fire up a talkative application using the command line you get to see all kinds of wonderful output. However, let’s say I have a particularly chatty programming running, like KINO, and I want to view its output at any given moment without restarting it through the command line. I cannot; at least I don't know how. There are a few options here. One is to redirect the output of the command to a

Is there a way to tell Mongo to pretty print output? Currently, everything is output to a single line and it's difficult to read, especially with nested arrays and documents. ( note: this is answer to original version of the question, which did not have requirements for "default" ) You can ask it to be pretty. db.collection.find().pretty() staackuser2 You can add DBQuery.prototype._prettyShell = true to your file in $HOME/.mongorc.js to enable pretty print globally by default. Bhanu Chawla (note: this is answer to the updated question) You can just do this on the CLI: echo DBQuery.prototype.

What's the easiest way to create a file in Linux terminal? Eugen Rieck Depending on what you want the file to contain: touch /path/to/file for an empty file somecommand > /path/to/file for a file containing the output of some command. eg: grep --help > randomtext.txt echo "This is some text" > randomtext.txt nano /path/to/file or vi /path/to/file (or any other editor emacs,gedit etc ) It either opens the existing one for editing or creates & opens the empty file to enter, if it doesn't exist Use touch touch filename Create the file using cat $ cat > myfile.txt Now, just type whatever you want

I want to know what exactly is the difference between CLR & CLI? From whatever I have read so far, it seems to indicate that CLI is a subset of CLR. But isn't everything in the CLR mandatory? What exactly may be left out of CLR to create a CLI? The CLR is Microsoft's implementation of the CLI standard . CLR is the execution environment in which a .NET application is safely hosted/run. You can see it as .NET's private Operating System that initiates and loads just before a .NET application starts. The CLR takes care of certain essential requirements of any .NET application that otherwise would