Set Bootable Partition Command Line
How to I set the bootable partition using the command line in parted?
Unix & Linux
Multiple screens on debian
I have two screens on my computer, but they all show the same image (i.e I can’t activate dual screen).
How can I find the common name for a particular glyph?
Sometimes, I’d like to know the name of a glyph. For example, if I see −, I may want to know if it’s a hyphen -, an en-dash –, an em-dash —, or a minus symbol −. Is there a way that I can copy-paste this into a terminal to see what it is?
quotas not linked to users but to directories
Usually, quotas are enforced per user, as related to the proprietary of the file.
urxvt: scroll just one line
I can scroll a chunk of output with Shift+PageUp (or PageDown), but is there a way to scroll just one line up and down? Often, you’d like to read something that is small enough to fit in one screen, but the scrolling is so heavy handed it is impossible to get the whole text chunk within one screen anyway!
Does the Linux kernel need a file system to run?
My opinion is yes, it does, because all useful exposure to the outside world (non-privileged processor mode) would first require a process running in the outside world. That would require a file system, even a temporary, in-RAM, file system.
Output of command not in stderr nor stdout
I’ve stumbled on this issue, so I’m wondering how is this possible?
confirmed exit using trap
I am trying to trap the Ctrl+C signal asking a confirmation from the user. The trapping part works fine. But once the signal gets trapped, it does not return to the normal execution. Instead, it quits the script. How to make it resume the execution when the user presses no.
Parse JSON using Python?
add the following line to file + save
Manipulate file name piped from find command
I’m relatively new to Bash and am trying to do something that on the surface seemed pretty straightforward – run find over a directory hierarchy to get all of the *.wma files, pipe that output to a command where I convert them to mp3 and save the converted file as .mp3. My thinking was that the command should look like the following (I’ve left off the audio conversion command and am instead using echo for illustration):