I know this question has been asked before, but I do not accept the answer, “you can clearly see custom additions”. When I add ppa’s (which I have not done in years), I hit a key on my keyboard labeled “Enter” which allows me to add an empty line before the new entry (I would even add an explanatory comment, but I am a tech writer, so ….). I like my sources.conf clean and neat.
Linux Mint has a nice GUI-based Update Manager with selectable update tiers. The defaults are for levels 1 through 3 our of a possible 5 levels. However, I often handle administrative tasks for a number of Linux Mint desktop systems using SSH rather than visiting the physical machines. How do I achieve the same functionality from the command line?
How can I recursively remove the EXIF info from several thousand JPG files?
I currently run Angstrom Linux 2.6.32. I intend to upgrade linux kernel from 2.6.32 to 3.0.7. For this reason, I had to configure kernel 3.0.7 running make menuconfig.
Asks the kernel for an anonymous pipe. There is no name, so this can’t be done with open like for a normal file — instead it’s done with pipe or pipe2, which returns two file descriptors.⁴
When I do – CD .. instead of cd ..
it gives me error saying –
I’m using a local BIND9 server to host some local dns records. When trying to dig for a local domain name I can’t find it if I don’t explicitly tell dig to use my local BIND9 server.
Having been directed to initramfs by an answer to my earlier question (thanks!), I’ve been working on getting initramfs working. I can now boot the kernel and drop to a shell prompt, where I can execute busybox commands, which is awesome.
I have a large set of JPEG pictures all with the same resolution. It would take too long to open each one inside the graphical interface of imagemagic or gimp.
I have a folder in which I have around 4k files. Some of these files start with a a ? or ! character. I need to delete them but can’t find an expression that would do so: