Recent content by Diputs

I worked with a system engineer once and he prefixed all Linux commands with the full path, in every script, like this: /usr/bin/cp sourcefile.txt targetfile.txt Seemed excessive to me, but I can see a point

Well, there can be a reason, like this: cat -v word file.txt | grep whatever The CAT command may have optional features that GREP won't be able to provide, but this is very specific all right.

That's a classic indeed This is also something I see: cd /some/directory ; unzip /source/file.zip -d . or also cd /source ; unzip file.zip -d /some/directory You could say it's a combined navigation (CD) and extract (unzip) action, but then NO other command follows that needs the...

Ow yes, I know I currently run Total Commander, one of the many clones But ... nothing still beats the deep blue Norton Commander in full-screen started via DOS. Well, it's a memory anyway

I'm partly German, so that may explain :) It must ze done correct !

That reminds me of the " park " command Back in the 90s I got my first computer, and I remember that I needed to " park " the disk, when physically moving the machine. That was a DOS machine, I remember it ran Norton Commander

I guess we're all differnent :) My fisrt goal is to make it work, and then I make it pretty, but that is a goal on itself as well. What I found out is that to make it pretty, the way you wrote the code initially, already helps. The better it is written, the better that goes.

What is also funny is to use TOUCH with a date as parameter And also ported to Windows touch.exe in case you want to cause some mayhem :)

Pull the plug ? Oh no, wait, nobody uses iron anymore. Stop your virtual Server, that'll stop your Linux

Just redirect the output and error output to see what it is doing */5 * * * * /home/dave/swap/bgimages/background.sh >> /tmp/mycronjobfails.log 2>&1 Cron Jobs don't run the same environment as when you login normally

I never used that ... I just init 6 or init 0 Is it a Unix thing ?

The & indeed is for background processing, and it typically is set at the end of the command. Often used with nohup, like this: nohup myscript.sh some parameters &

Insert this somewhere at the start of the program: set -x That's euhm, an understatement :) So you basically say that different functions do different things

I don't get that I'm not English native speaker, so I have a good excuse.

The "code" I refer to is more related to command line usage, not entire source code of the Linux Kernel Things like this: For clarity : DO NOT RUN THIS COMMAND ! cd /some/path ; rm -rf * For clarity : DO NOT RUN THIS COMMAND !