Why does chmod succeed on a file when the user does not have write permission on parent directory?
I am trying to understand file/dir permissions in Linux.
A user can list the files in a directory using
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Change default path for when I SSH in to CentOS server?
I have a CentOS 5.7 web server, and I want to change the default place I land in when connecting using SSH.
execute command on a defined range of directories
Is it possible to ‘partition’ a directory listing – say in to blocks of some number, to perform different actions on each ‘range’?
What does ‘script /dev/null’ do?
Every time I log into a VM with root, su into a user account, and try to use screen it throws an error:
How to know the source repository of a package in debian?
In Debian, AFAIK some packages are maintained in Subversion (famously team-pkg-gnome), while some are maintained in git, and others in some other VCS.
Finding files that use the most disk space
Is it possible to list the largest files on my hard drive? I frequently use df -H to display my disk usage, but this only gives the percentage full, GBs remaining, etc.
Mapping metadata with avconv does not work
The way I understand man avconv (version 9.16-6:9.16-0ubuntu0.14.04.1), the following command should convert input.ogg to output.mp3 and carry over metadata:
SSH: How to disable weak ciphers?
Security team of my organization told us to disable weak ciphers due to they issue weak keys.
Merging files by rows
Is it possible to copy the whole rows of File1 in a new File3 following the instruction given by File2 by using a simple bash script using sed or awk?
What is Linux doing differently that allows me to remove/replace files where Windows would complain the file is currently in use?
The example I have is Minecraft. When running Bukkit on Linux I can remove or update the .jar files in the /plugins folder and simply run the ‘reload’ command.