What’s the difference between pkill and killall?
I know that pkill has more filtering rules than killall. My question is, what is the difference between:
linux
Is it good to make a separate partition for /boot?
I’ve seen some people make a separate partition for /boot. What is the benefit of doing this? What problems might I encounter in the future by doing this?
What is the difference between Unix, Linux, BSD and GNU?
GNU is an operating system that is free software—that is, it respects
users’ freedom.
Mount a filesystem read-only, and redirect writes to RAM?
Is it possible to mount a loopback file as read-only, and redirect all writes to RAM?
Why and how are some shared libraries runnable, as though they are executables?
On 32-bit Linux systems, invoking this
Open a file given by the result of a command in vim
I find myself doing the following almost every day
Get the chmod numerical value for a file
In FreeBSD and also in Linux, how can I get the numerical chmod value of a file? For example, 644 instead of -rw-r–r–? I need an automatic way for a Bash script. Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue … Read more
Compress a folder with tar?
I’m trying to compress a folder (/var/www/) to ~/www_backups/$time.tar where $time is the current date.
How can get a list of all scheduled cron jobs on my machine?
My sysadmin has set up a bunch of cron jobs on my machine. I’d like to know exactly what is scheduled for what time. How can I get that list?
Swap alt and super
I have a Macbook Air that runs Linux. I want to swap the alt and super keys in both sides of the keyboard with each other.