I followed the following tutorial:
At some point it told me to execute the following command:
sudo bash -c "cat >> /etc/apache2/sites-available/magento-store.com <<EOF
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName localhost.magento-store.com ServerAlias DocumentRoot /home/dev/public_html/ LogLevel warn ErrorLog /home/dev/public_html/ CustomLog /home/dev/public_html/ combined
</VirtualHost>
EOF"What did this command do, and how I can cancel that?
I restarted the computer, and it seems that it is still running. I looked in .bashrc and .profile, but I did not find it inside.
3 Answers
Quoting from man bash:
-c string If the -c option is present, then commands are read from string.
If there are arguments after the string, they are assigned to the positional parameters, starting with $0.
The command quoted by you would append the text in heredoc (i.e. the text in VirtualHost tag) to the file /etc/apache2/sites-available/magento-store.com.
The manual page for Bash (e.g. man bash) says that the -c option executes the commands from a string; i.e. everything inside the quotes.
Check out the man pages, either on your machine or on the Internet, like this one.
Quote:
-c string If the -c option is present, then commands are read from string. If there are arguments after the string, they are assigned to the positional parameters, starting with $0.
