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Unix & Linux

Move file to another user’s home directory (without sudo)?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I have a couple of files that I want to move to another’s user home directory. I don’t have permissions to write to that user’s home directory, but I know his password.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags mv, permissions, scp Leave a comment

How to kill all process with given name?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I run command ps -A | grep <application_name> and getting list of process like this:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags grep, kill, process, ps Leave a comment

Why is df missing 500MB of available space?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I’ve just had a message today from Ubuntu 11.04 that I have only 100 MB left, so I cleaned up some files, and I got 200 MB. Then, after a couple of hours, suddenly I have only 26 MB?! I tried df, du via mount –bind, /forcefsck with reboot – nothing could should what the … Read more

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags disk-usage, filesystems Leave a comment

Removal of lines with no more or fewer than ‘N’ fields?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I am working on mac with sed, perl, awk, bash..

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags awk, columns, sed, text-processing Leave a comment

How do I jump to the next or previous word with CTRL + arrow keys in a console?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

In terminal emulation applications, pressing CTRL + Left / Right arrows jumps from one word to the previous or next one. Is it possible to have the same functionality in a Linux console, whether it is in text or in framebuffer modes?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags keyboard-shortcuts, linux, terminal Leave a comment

BashScript works from Terminal but not from CronTab

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I’ve got a bunch of CronJobs, and they work fine, except for one. I’ve looked through a lot of forums and websites, and tried a combination of things but alas nothing has worked.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, cron Leave a comment

Disabling CNA in MacOS

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I am doing some experiences/investigation into captive networks/the WISPr protocol. (see Getting WISPr tags from a FON authentication portal )

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags osx Leave a comment

What is a canonical way to find the actual maximum argument list length?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

Following ARG_MAX, maximum length of arguments for a new process it seems like ARG_MAX is wrongly (or at least ambiguously) defined on my Mac Mini 3,1 running Ubuntu 12.04:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags arguments, limit Leave a comment

Using native 1366 x 768 resolution in a Lenovo Ideapad

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I have a Lenovo Ideapad 100S 14” IBR-14” Intel Celeron CPU N3060 @ 1.60GHz, 32GB SSD, 4GB RAM, based in the Broadwell chipset, running FreeBSD 12.0.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags freebsd, xorg Leave a comment

What types of executable files exist on Linux?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

For example, if I do

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags executable, linux Leave a comment
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