Why does chmod +w not give write permission to other(o)
When I run chmod +w filename it doesn’t give write permission to other, it just gives write permission to user and group.
Unix & Linux
Write lines to a file from less
While in vim I can write a range of lines from the file I’m viewing to another file. For example,
How to get mount point of filesystem containing given file
I am looking for a quick way to find the mount point of the file system containing a given FILE. Is there anything simpler or more direct than my solution below?
Per-directory history in zsh
I am happily using zsh since a while now, and I am quite satisfied with my history settings, which are:
How to export variable for use with sudo?
On Slackware, using sbopkg permits one to build a package from source. Repos is not big as Debian, but it’s nice.
What sets the size of tmpfs? What happens when its full?
What sets the size of the tmpfs? (On my machine it resides in /dev/shm)
I can see its entry in /etc/fstab, but no notation of its size.
When checking with df -h, it seems to be half the size of the physical memory installed in the system.
Is this the default behavior?
How to extract data from a JSON file
I have bin searching a solution for my question but didn’t find a or better said I did not get it with what I found.
So lets talk about what my problem is about.
I am using a Smart Home Control Software on a Raspberry Pi and as I found out this weekend using pilight-receive I can catch the data from my outdoor temperature sensor. The output of pilight-receive looks like that:
Why is printf “shrinking” umlaut?
If I execute the following simple script:
How can I find out what version of Debian a particular version of Ubuntu is based on?
My understanding is that Ubuntu is based on Debian. For example, on the Wikipedia page for Ubuntu it states “It is a Linux distribution based on the Debian architecture.” How can I find out what version of Debian a particular version of Ubuntu is based on (if any)?
Can not resolve .local domains internal to my office LAN
On Linux Debian 9 I am able to resolve a specific local domain e.g. my.sample-domain.local using some commands like nslookup or host, but not with some other commands like ping or the Postgres client psql.