Everything is a file?
In Linux, every single entity is considered as FILE. If I do vim <cd-Name> then, vim will open the directory content into it’s editor, because, it do not differentiate between file and directories.
Unix & Linux
Debian: The repository does not have a Release file
Whenever trying to install some programs from source, or specifically running apt update, I receive this message:
locale not found/setting locale failed – what should I do?
I’ve installed Debian 7 i386 on my VPS (OpenVZ). Everything works fine, except locales – any attempt to install anything shows:
How can I delete a folder with lots of subfolders fast?
I have a folder with 266778 subfolders. How can I delete it?
How to find/grep what is between string1 and string2?
I am trying to extract a value from a long string that may change over time. So for example the string could look something like this
Equivalent of iwlist to see who is around?
What is the equivalent to:
Output colored text in all major distros without using non-word color codes (like 33[0;31m)
I found these ways, for example, to output colored text in a simple way to the screen:
Securely feeding a program with a password
After understanding the problem with using a password in the command line, I need to find a way of feeding a program with a password without it being a problem (without the password being recorded somewhere).
How do open files behave on linux systems?
I just renamed a log file to “foo.log.old”, and assumed that the application will start writing a new logfile at “foo.log”. I was surprised to discover that it tracked the logfile to its new name, and kept appending lines to “foo.log.old”.
How can I time a pipe?
I want to time a command which consists of two separate commands with one piping output to another. For example, consider the two scripts below: