Portable way to find inode number
At first I used stat -c %i file (to help detect the presence of a jail), which seemed to work on any Linux distribution under the sun. On OS X’ I had to use ls -i file | cut -d ' ' -f 1.
Unix & Linux
HTML client for X11 ssh forwarding?
Not totally sure if this is the right place but here goes.
How to run 32 bit programs on 64 bit Fedora 17?
Although the Android Development Tools (ADT) bundle is available as a zip package for ‘Linux 64 Bit’ it states following requirements:
How to copy all HTML files from a directory tree to a single directory
I want to copy all the .html files from myDir and its subdirectories to ~/otherDir. Here’s what I tried, but it doesn’t work:
How to check how long a process ran after it finished?
Currently I’m using the following to check how long a process is actually running:
Intel Ethernet Connection I219-V not working under Linux on an ASUSPRO B laptop, e1000e driver reports: “The NVM Checksum Is Not Valid”
I have a problem with an ASUSPRO B8430UA laptop: when I boot it with Ubuntu 16.04 (or NixOS 16.03) the Ethernet port does not work. The driver used is e1000e, it reports:
Any command in my terminal that exits with non-zero code closes my terminal window
At first this was a bit funny, like playing “Bash Roulette”
…but now it’s getting old lol
Chmod by Letters Vs Numbers
I was recently asked by a colleague to use chmod with letters instead of numbers. Apart from the obvious readability advantage is there any particular reason to use letters over numbers ?
What is the purpose of /usr/lib/.build-id/ dir?
After a fresh inst of f27 (netinstall) I noticed that many pkgs place tiny files in /usr/lib/.build-id/ dir. At 1st I thought I somehow had enabled some obscure “debug” mode for dnf, but even
How can I find out which files are lost through a ddrescue recovery atempt?
I am in the process of salvaging data from a 1 TB failing drive (asked about it in Procedure to replace a hard disk?). I have done ddrescue from a system rescue USB with a resulting error size of 557568 B in 191 errors, probably all in /home (I assume what it calls “errors” are not bad sectors, but consecutive sequences of them).