bash script [ x$1 = x ]
I am reading bash script I do not understand what is going there.
Unix & Linux
Find recursively all archive files of diverse archive formats and search them for file name patterns
At best I would like to have a call like this:
When mounting, when should I use a loop device?
According to the following question:
What is a “loop device” when mounting?
A loop device is a file that acts as a block-based device. While I can understand that conceptually, how is this different from mounting any other file? For example, if I take a dd image of an ext2 filesystem and then mount it, I don’t have to use the loop option- mount -t ext2 file.dd /mnt/mount-point succeeds.
Difference between ‘ifconfig’ and ‘ip’ commands
I read some articles/tutorials on ‘ifconfig’ command, most of them included a common statement –
How do I stop/disable unattended upgrades from being launched automatically?
I recently installed Trisquel 8.0 LTS (Flidas) on my Desktop PC which was running on Trisquel 7.0 for 4 year. The system became very slow. When I check the RAM and CPU Usage, I found that CPU is almost at 100 % I tun top to see what is going wrong and found that unattended-upgr … Read more
Using Diff on a specific column in a file
Will it be possible to use diff on a specific columns in a file?
how to rename files while copying?
How would I copy (archive style where date isn’t changed) all the files in a backup directory to the user’s directory while renaming each file to remove the random string portion from the name (i.e., -2b0fd460_1426b77b1ee_-7b8e)?
Horizontal file concatenation
Is there a Linux command like cat that joins files with the same number of lines horizontally?
Should I use fdisk for partitioning or GPT aware tools?
Question: Should I use fdisk when creating partitions?
Scripteable GPT partitions using parted
I am partitioning eMMC using following commands in the script,