I’m playing with btrfs, which allows cp --reflink to copy-on-write. Other programs, such as lxc-clone, may use this feature as well. My question is, how to tell if a file is a CoW of another? Like for hardlink, I can tell from the inode number.
Say I have a card with these properties:
I have a small script that loops through all files of a folder and executes a (usually long lasting) command. Basically it’s
I have encountered comparisions of variables to string literals multiple times over the years which had one character prefixing the variable and the literal, e.g.
I have an ISO file and I mount it under /mnt/isofile. Then I copied this file to another folder. But the contents are read-only and belonged to root. I tried to use chmod and chown. But it prompts with the message:
If I wanted to use zsh, for instance, rather than bash, where would I make this change for the current user? Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue immediately. So please treat them as advisements. If you found the … Read more
The output of the above command when passed through echo is:
I have learned from this Stack Overflow question that it is possible to use vi/vim to comment out a specified range of line numbers. For example, suppose I have the following bash script:
% select all lines