How to remove a USB drive without worrying if its been unmounted?
Patient: “Doctor, It hurts when I do this.”
Doctor: “Well, don’t do that.”
— maybe the Marx Brothers, but they probably stole it from other vaudevillians if so
Unix & Linux
Combining 2 different cut outputs in a single command?
I have a file such as the following:
How to call a script after every bash command
Is it possible to call a script in this example named hey.sh after every bash command?
How do I use gunzip and tar to extract my tar.gz file to the specific directory I want?
When I run gunzip -dc /path_to_tar.gz_file/zip1.tar.gz | tar xf - in the directory where the tar.gz file is located, it extracts just fine.
How do I remove/uninstall a program that I have complied from source?
A lot of people has asked me how can they remove from their boxes a program they compiled and installed from source. Some times -very few- the program’s author adds an uninstall rule to their Makefile, but that’s not usually the case. This is my primary reason to write CheckInstall. After you ./configure; make your program, CheckInstall will run make install (or whatever you tell it to run) and keep track of every file modified by this installation.
How to run my script after SuSE finished booting up?
I want my server to notify me (via growl) that the (re)booting finished. I have the php file that sends out the growl ready but I do not know what file I should add the line in.
Extend Default Configuration of vim
I’ve been using the default configuration of vim for a while and want to make a few changes. However, if I edit ~/.vimrc it seems to overwrite all other configuration settings of /etc/vimrc and such, e.g. now there is no syntax highlighting. Here is what vim loads:
Pipe all input and output of terminal to file
I do not know if this is even possible or not, but in an attempt to keep track of many changes I am about to make to my system I want to track all input I type and all output from a terminal I’m working with to a file. I’ve been messing around trying to … Read more
Why does bash show ‘Terminated’ after killing a process?
Here is the behaviour I want to understand:
How to disable a service without using ‘systemctl disable’
There is a service I want to run only when another service fails ([Unit] OnFailure=foo), but I don’t want this service (foo) to start up automatically on boot. One option is running systemctl disable foo, but I’m looking for another way.