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A family of Unix-like operating systems using the Linux kernel. If your question is about a certain distribution only, use a more specific tag.
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why linux says cannot stat
subdir1 either is empty, or a broken symlink or doesn't exist or there are no files in it with dots in their names.
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Is there Linux command to remember directories?
It would be easy to write a function that would use dialog or whiptail along with pushdir and popdir to do what you're asking.
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Remove/Disable USB Host controller driver
You should be able to add a line similar to the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:
blacklist your-mod-name
and remove it from the currently running system:
modprobe -r your-mod-name
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UPS compatible with Linux box?
Use a UPS which will sustain the power to the system and drives, send a signal to a daemon on the system when power is interrupted and protect them from surges during "normal" power operation.
See Th …
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application to make shell typing easier?
You may prefer setting the completion type to "menu-complete". In your ~/.inputrc file you can add a line that says "\C-i": menu-complete or at a Bash prompt, enter bind '"\C-i":menu-complete', then e …
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Find files that have been accessed after they were created
This should work:
find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I % find -path % -anewer %
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Set system clock in Unix to millisecond precision
You should use ntpd which will keep your system accurate by syncing with time servers using NTP (Network Time Protocol).
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linux + find mechanism with Irregular Expression (find command) or perl
This will print the full line that contains something that resembles an IP address. It doesn't check to see if its octets are in the range 0-255.
grep -Er '\<([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}\>' /*
to on …
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LINUX Code for renaming files with prefix in subfolders
Using Bash:
for f in /path/to/*
do
dir="${f%/*}"
echo mv "$f" "$dir/PRE_${f/$a\/}"
done
All on one line:
for f in /path/to/*; do dir="${f%/*}"; echo mv "$f" "$dir/PRE_${f/$a\/}"; done
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replacing dot in string, but leaving last one
Give this a try:
echo 'someth.ing.something.txt' | sed 's/\(.*\)\.\([^.]*\)$/\1\n\2/;s/\./-/g;s/\n/./g'
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GNU sort by case-sensitive
Interestingly, yet another sort order is available like this:
echo -e "c\nb\nB\na" | LC_COLLATE=C sort --ignore-case
which puts the uppercase letter before its corresponding lowercase letter.
Here …
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How can I setup a group writeable directory?
You need to set the setgid bit on the directory.
chmod g+s html
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Move folder contents into parent folder - Linux Commandline
$ cd /path/to/folderA
$ mv folderB/* .
$ rmdir folderB
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How to know the level of a symlink in linux?
This recursive Bash function will print the link chain and count plus the diagnostic:
chain() { local link target; if [[ -z $_chain ]]; then unset _chain_count _expansion; _chain="$1"; fi; link=$(sta …
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how to navigate directories with heaps of files
You can use head:
ls -l | head