I have been banging my head against this for quite a while now. It’s related to this question. I would like to find out exactly what happens when I choose to shut down my Linux box from the GUI. This seems to be poorly (if at all) documented.
I would like to list all files matching a certain pattern while ignoring the case.
One of my favorite Unix tricks is ^x^y, which will take the last command and replace the first instance of “x” with “y”. However, I’m wondering if a similar trick works to replace all instances of “x” with “y” in the last command?
Is there a simple command that takes a disk’s device node as input, and tells me where (and whether) that disk is mounted? Is it possible to get the mount point by itself, so I can pass it to another command?
How can I ‘cat’ a man page like I would ‘cat’ a file to get just a dump of the contents?
My question is with regards to booting a Linux system from a separate /boot partition. If most configuration files are located on a separate / partition, how does the kernel correctly mount it at boot time?
I have a file that contains file names. For example:
Does anyone know of a simple way to produce the PostScript corresponding to a syntax-highlighted version of a source file that can be piped directly to a PostScript printer?
I don’t remember why they did this, but at one point X.org decided that disabling CtrlAltBackspace to kill it was a good idea. I know there’s a way to re-enable it but I don’t remember how. Can someone refresh my memory?
I have to disable some event to avoid an immediate wakeup after suspend in my desktop machine, and I made it by trial and error (works well, so that is not a problem). But I wonder… for example in my laptop I have a long list in /proc/acpi/wakeup: