My question is how to get the user name on the shell, who is currently using the Linux desktop (on a “normal” desktop system, where you usually only have one active user, i.e. no server system here, but just your usual Laptop etc.). If you really want to imagine a server system, I would be … Read more
Whenever I create or copy few shell files to usb storage device, then I am not able to make them executable.
When you run cal on Linux, the output for the current month will reverse video highlight the current day. When I send that output to hexdump -c, I get some interesting results:
I created a bootable usb from which I was going to install Arch. I did this the following way:
I’m having a problem where grep gets confused when the directory contains a file starting with dashes.
Is there any Linux program which offers the same (or some of the) functionality of Sysinternals DiskView, especially being able to view to physical location of a file on a hard disk?
Logging into a remote host using ssh -X [email protected], I successfully run gnome-terminal -e "tail -F /var/log/file" &. When I log off and then try the same thing the next day, I get this:
Either what I’m asking here is extremely unorthodox/unconventional/risky, or my Google-fu skills just aren’t up to snuff…
Typing man alias gives me
Why don’t they upload packages to the normal package repository? Is this a general convention… do other distros separate the repositories also?