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How to tell of whether the kernel parameter [passed at command line] is a valid kernel parameter?
In the grub.conf configuration file I can specify command line parameters that the kernel will use, i.e.:
kernel /boot/kernel-3-2-1-gentoo root=/dev/sda1 vga=791 plasticDuck
After booting up a ...
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How to display kernel command line parameters?
In the grub.conf configuration file I can specify command line parameters that the kernel will use, i.e.:
kernel /boot/kernel-3-2-1-gentoo root=/dev/sda1 vga=791
After booting a given kernel, is ...
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Where are command line arguments (e.g. 'some.text') actually passed to?
From what I know, parameters you pass to a command, goes to it's STDIN stream.
so this:
cut -d. -f2 'some.text'
should be perfectly identical to this:
echo 'some.text' | cut -d. -f2
as we send ...
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what does Curl's stand-alone hyphen (-) mean?
what's the stand-alone hyphen (between the -C & -O) stand for in this command?
curl -C - -O http://www.intersil.com/content/dam/Intersil/documents/fn67/fn6742.pdf
FWIW- I'm following a ...
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How can I create a empty file whose name begins with a dash?
How can we create a empty file with the unix name -stuff.
It means the name start with -. I tried with touch -stuff but it didn't work.
