I want to mount a password-protected SMB share (served by a Windows machine). The share is protected by a user name and password, and I may not write the password in a file, I want to be prompted for the password at mount time.
For example, while this works:
What is the file with the ~ at the end of the filename for? $ ls # aliased to add flags -rwxrwxr-x 1 durrantm 2741 May 16 09:28 strip_out_rspec_prep_cmds.sh~* drwxrwxr-x 13 durrantm 4096 May 16 14:21 ../ -rwxrwxr-x 1 durrantm 2221 May 16 14:58 strip_out_rspec_prep_cmds.sh* This is not the same as .swp files which are … Read more
I know what should be the difference between su and su -, but in my system (Debian) for example PATH is the same:
Does the command pwd in a shell script output the directory the shell script is in?
Context for the question: According to POSIX specs, ARG_MAX is maximum length of command-line arguments to exec() family of functions. Which lead me to believe that’s actual number of arguments, however that clearly didn’t work: $ ulimit -s 8192 $ touch {1..18000}.jpg $ rm *.jpg $ Clearly, this works fine, despite being in length over … Read more
Alright, when I run certain commands the wrong way, (misspelled, etc.) The terminal outputs this: > instead of computername:workingfolder username$, and when I type enter it goes like this:
I want to lowercase every directories’ name under a directory. With which commands can I do that?
Is there a way to retrieve the desktop environment name (e.g. Gnome, Unity, XFCE, LXDE, KDE…) from the command line or using Python? Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue immediately. So please treat them as advisements. If you … Read more
After going through the bash documentation, this question and this one it’s still not clear to me how can I perform atomic write (append) operations to a file in bash. I have a script that is run in multiple instances and at some point must write data to a file: