( du /etc; du /var; ) > tmp.txt { du /etc; du /var; } > tmp.txt Is there a difference between the () and {}? The output of tmp.txt seems exactly the same, and I was wondering whether i’m missing something here. Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that … Read more
Using Arch Linux / XFCE, I frequently have problems with USB drives that are not properly mounted. Sometimes they automatically show up in Thunar and I can mount them with one click. However, at other times (it’s about fifty/fifty) the drive is just not recognized. I have had this problem with USB External Hard Drives, USB Memory Sticks, and cameras. If the external drive is not recognized, this is the situation:
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I have a machine with both glibc i686 and x86_64, and a very annoying problem with glibc.
I understand what brace expansion is, but I don’t know how best to use it.
I’m using Xubuntu. Before login I can choose a keyboard layout. I’m using xmodmap for remapping some keys.
I’m confused about the difference or advantage (if any) of running a set of tasks in a .sh script using GNU parallel
Summary: I’m trying to figure out why my tmux session dies when I disconnect from ssh
I have two different machines (home and work) running Ubuntu 18.04. Last night vim froze at home. I was in insert mode and typing and went to save (esc :w) and nothing happened. The status bar still reads -- INSERT --, the cursor is still blinking where it was. I was stuck. I couldn’t find a way out. I couldn’t type (nothing happened when I type), I couldn’t move around (the up and down arrows did nothing). It was stuck in insert mode with the cursor blinking where it was.
I am doing integer comparison in bash (trying to see if the user is running as root), and I found two different ways of doing it: