What’s the difference between executing multiple commands with && and ;? Examples: echo "Hi!" && echo "How are you?" and echo "Hi!"; echo "How are you?" 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 … Read more
Could you recommend a way to figure out which driver is being used for a USB device.
Sort of a usb equivalent of lspci -k command.
I have multiple harddisks which get connected to my server and I’m not sure which one is what in the view of sdXY . If I can see the serial numbers of my harddisks from terminal, I can easily identify them.
What I am doing is converting mp3’s with LAME. I already have an old script I wrote that works but I want to add to it this ability–to no longer delete the file but instead save it in a new root folder with sub-directories that match the using the path that it is already in.
After entering an incorrect password at a login prompt, there s an approximately 3-second delay. How can I change that on a Linux system with PAM?
How to change the system date in Linux ?
I understand and accept the premise that defensive1 shell scripting is both prudent and, in the longer term, more sustainable.
I can successfully mount an ext4 partition, the problem is that all the files on the partition are owned by the user with userid 1000. On one machine, my userid is 1000, but on another it’s 1010. My username is the same on both machines, but I realise that the filesystem stores userids, not usernames.
I’m using archlinux. It never auto-suspend before a recent system upgrade(maybe I updated the kernel?).
A long time ago I remember using a command that makes its input into a nicely formatted table.