Changing parent directory (../) with symlinks
I have a symlink
Unix & Linux
bluetooth mouse disconnects
I’m using Debian Jessie (testing). I have a bluetooth mouse (Microsoft Sculpt Comfort) and I can pair it and use it ok, but after some time of inactivity (around 10 minutes) it stops working, I have to manually touch the set discoverable button on the mouse and re-pair it on the command line.
Is the file table in the filesystem or in memory?
In the context of operating system control tables, does the term “file tables” refer to a data structure that is part of the filesystem, or that is in main memory (and in which case I assume it would only have references to open files)? My textbook1 says,
Can I “drag” a file into a window without a file manager?
(I’m on Arch Linux, using i3 as my wm and xterm as my terminal emulator, though I don’t know if any of that is relevant.)
Linux Mint 18 suspend issue
After fresh installation of Linux Mint 18 64-bit, when I try to suspend screen goes black and system does not suspend (and power led stays on).
How to upgrade shared library without crash?
Here it says that you can rewrite an executable file and the process will run just fine – it will be re-read when a process restarts.
What can make passing init=/path/to/program to the kernel not start program as init?
I’m trying to debug an init script on a Linux system; I’m trying to pass init=/bin/sh to the kernel to make it start sh without starting init so I can run through the init sequence manually.
How to interpret badblocks output
The man pages for badblocks do not seem to mention what the three numbers in the output mean in particular:
Bash regex capture group
I’m trying to match multiple alphanumeric values (this number could vary) from a string and save them to a bash capture group array. However, I’m only getting the first match:
How do I remove certain lines (using line numbers) in a file?
There are specific lines that I want to remove from a file. Let’s say it’s line 20-37 and then line 45. How would I do that without specifying the content of those lines?