{"id":41055,"date":"2021-02-27T15:56:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T15:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=41055"},"modified":"2021-02-27T15:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T15:56:34","slug":"liunix-the-dot-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/liunix-the-dot-command\/","title":{"rendered":"(Li|U)nix: the dot command"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about (Li|U)nix: the tutor mentions another neat command.<\/h2>\n<p>The &#8220;dot&#8221; is just a period. A simple example of the dot command is<\/p>\n<p><code>. file0<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If file0 contains Unix commands, they will be executed. Interestingly, with the dot command, file0 doesn&#8217;t have to be executable.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shell-tips.com\/bash\/source-dot-command\/\">shell-tips.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about (Li|U)nix: the tutor mentions another neat command. The &#8220;dot&#8221; is just a period. A simple example of the dot command is . file0 If file0 contains Unix commands, they will be executed. Interestingly, with the dot command, file0 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/liunix-the-dot-command\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(Li|U)nix: the dot command<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41055"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41058,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41055\/revisions\/41058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}