Questions tagged [linux]
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Replace VI macro with Linux equivalent
My file arrives on a linux server and contains ^M characters when seen in VI and the file format = unix, (ff=unix)
I want to turn lines 1-4 into line lines 9 - 10.
My vi marco solves my problem.
/\r/...
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Can't connect to network when creating two network namespaces for two NICs
I'm exploring A.B's comment in this question as a workaround to my issue.
As a summary, so you don't have to read that whole question: I try to setup two NICs in two separate network namespaces to ...
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How can I send duplicate packets, one instantly and one with a delay?
For testing on Linux, I can create duplicate packets where both are sent instantly with the following command:
sudo tc qdisc add dev IFACE root netem duplicate 100%
How can I create duplicate ...
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Searching whole system for files with specific inode
I technically know how to do all these things, but combining it is problematic.
Inode is saved in first line of text file (I can eventually read it directly from file), I need results saved to the ...
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How extract row based on some value in columns?
I have a bam file as below (it is only a subset), I would like to extract rows based on chr (2 in the third column) and start position (13107 to 14348 in the fourth column).
Input:
D00823:135:...
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How to Pin Point Large File eating space in Fedora 18
This is taking up my time, and I can't determine exactly what file is eating up my disk.
Firstly I used df command to list my directories:
devtmpfs 16438304 0 16438304 0% /...
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Is it ok to combine machines with DNS server management and machines that do host lookups through a hosts file?
We have a cluster of Linux machines.
DNS of these machines is managed by a DNS server (a Windows machine with DNS records).
Now we want to add an additional cluster with Linux machines
that would do ...
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Can not ssh server with `debug3: fd 1 is not O_NONBLOCK`
I have a CentOS 7.5 Dedicated Server, I found it can not ssh login now:
and I checked the sshd service and firewalld is closed.
this is my login in my PC ssh root@x.x.x.x -vvv:
debug2: channel 0: ...
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Linux Memory Allocation/De-allocation
will the pgfree/s command happen without pgscand/s? How and
what is the difference between pgfree/s and pgscank/s?
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Need to convert output to curly braces and quotes [duplicate]
host1:3183,host2:3183,host3:3183
I got above output from a different command. But I need to convert it to below
{
"host1",
"host2",
"host3"
}
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Set Linux from dynamic to static ip temporarily - IPv4
I am trying to change my IP address behind my router to a specific port. I want it dynamic. But having someone try x.y.z.136 first really makes trouble-shooting easier. Even if it is only a 90% ...
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How can I disable Zathura's statusbar by default?
I'd like to hide the statusbar by default when opening Zathura (Which is normally done with ^n)
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What could cause slow binfmt-support.service during boot?
I have a Fujitsu LifeBook with Lubuntu 18.04.2 which is booting very slow. Here's the output from systemd-analyze blame | head -n20
28.869s systemd-journal-flush.service
24.957s dev-sda1.device
14....
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Move (mv) file that starts with a hyphen (-) [duplicate]
I have a file called -my-file-name.txt. I'm trying to move it using the mv command, however it fails because the hyphen in the name is acting like an option.
mv -my-file-name.txt /some/new/folder
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How to stop bash script from running at login
OS Debian Stretch
The script below was executed and I can't find out how to stop it permanently. The script starts a few programs at login.
script is saved in home/usr/audio-scripts and the script'...
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Installation of Firefox on Alpine Linux
I'm trying to install Firefox on Alpine Linux. I ran
$ sudo apk add firefox
And a few hundred MBs later, it installed.
However, when I ran firefox, it crashed with symbol not found errors and ...
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How to utilize Windows 10 Connection Sharing to Access ZScaler protected Websites on Linux / Ubuntu 18.04
How can I use ZScaler to access protected websites via Ubuntu without a dedicated Ubuntu client?
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How to robustly switch pulseaudio output device from command line?
In Ubuntu and probably other distros there is a graphical thing to switch the audio output device. I have tried to write a command line tool that does the same thing, but it doesn't always work.
What ...
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Save output of multiple commands to the same file [duplicate]
For example whoami and date. I can do this that way
whoami>/home/user/folder/file
date>>/home/user/folder/file
But i'm sure it can be done in one line without typing path two times. I have ...
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Windows on SSD, Linux on HDD. No dual-boot. Separate bootloader devices. Will there be problems?
I have a 1 Terabyte HDD which is currently empty storage space for Windows which is on SSD. I want to split the HDD to two 500GB partitions and use first half as Windows storage space and the other ...
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CentOS Moved entire root directory (mv -v /*) [duplicate]
Dont laugh at me but I ran:
mv -v /* /home/dropbuyexpress
instead of
mv -v * /home/dropbuyexpress
Luckily my ssh is still on.
Is there any way that I can get mv/cp working?
OS: CentOS 7
Below ...
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I want to start an email hosting solutions on my own server [on hold]
I want to start an email hosting solutions on my own server. Something which Migadu ( https://www.migadu.com/en/index.html ), google apps(email) for business or Zoho does. I am not sure how to get ...
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Systemd service to restart only 5 times on failure
Below is my service, I have a simple utility which upgrades the service, I have enabled this to run on boot
[Unit]
Description=Firmware Update Service
[Service]
StartLimitBurst=3
StartLimitInterval=...
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How to download wine-tkg manually to play FIFA 19?
I am using Linux Mint 19.1 and I want to install FIFA 19 in it. I went to lutris.net and I found out that I have to install wine-tkg for esync features. The download link provided in there doesn't ...
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Tomcat9 Enable Manager Page for multiple services
To enable manager page for some webservice running on port 8999, i have copied the manager directory from webapps to port 8999's appbase i.e., webapps2.
The manager page opens fine on port 8999 but ...
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Linux awk grep from file 1 into file 2
I have regex in file 1
.*8912.*.*.*.*81415444.*
.*8912.*.*.*.*81415444.*
.*8912.*.*.*.*81415444.*
.*8912.*.*.*.*81415444.*
.*8912.*.*.*.*81415444.*
.*8912.*.*.*.*81415444.*
.*8912.*.*.*.*81415444.*
.*...
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Getting the right file permissions when building packages in /usr/local/src
As far as I understand, when you build a package foo located in /usr/local/src you shouldn't need to be root. However, when I extract the package and try to run the build script it fails because it ...
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Sharing internet using Network-Over-USB in Raspberry Zero based on ( BeagleBone Black method)
need to connect my pi via USB Ethernet to my WIFI PC (Linux Mint LMDE 3 Cindy) to connecting to the internet.
I have changed my pi IP to 192.168.7.2 by this instruction.
After that, I have done the ...
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fetch line in a file if first column match from another file?
I have two text files (tab delimited). I am looking to fetch a line from file 2 if first column or ID matches in file 2. Example is below:
File 1:
115
147
222
322
File 2:
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Live CD/USB distro with most recent (or mainline) kernel [on hold]
Out there in the Linux kernel, and related camps, impressive progress is constantly made with regard to support for new and shiny hardware.
And I am wondering why there is no (at least no popular/...
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How to write a bash script to trigger next command if and only if the previous command's process is completed
I have a command like this which will trigger a process
./extract.sh 1553212800 1554854400 &
This will give a process id for example 1234
and I want to run next command only if 1234 is ...
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Creating A new filesystem [on hold]
one linux server has been installed fedora with lvm now you need to create a new filesystem with 500gb mounted on /doc. Assume there is 700gb free space on disk /dev/sda. As a system Administrator, ...
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I am not able to update a variable through sed command
I have assigned two variables but not able to update
x=$(cat /scratch/env.properties | grep ConfigPath)
y=$(ConfigPath=/scratch/a/b)
then sed to replace ConfigPath in env.properties
sed 's/$x/$y/' ...
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Continuously detect a change of chksum of files under folder with inotify-tools [duplicate]
I just installed inotify-tools.
I would like to continuously detect change of chksum of files under folder /path
Once a change was detect ( under /path ) then it will print
echo “chksum of files ...
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Extract Kernel from Running System
Is it possible to get the kernel image (bzImage, vmlinuz, etc.) from a running system by reading through the system's memory?
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Can I Increase raid 1 capacity by changing to raid 5?
My initial raid setup was 2x2TB RAID 1 using mdadm.
I have bought a 3rd 2TB drive in the hopes to upgrade the RAID's total capacity to 4 TB using mdadm.
I have already run the following two ...
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Firewall Blocking NATed Traffic Suddenly after adding a NIC
I have home a server that used to have one NIC, but I added a second one to give a dedicated link to the TV tuner.
I went from having eth0 (the onboard NIC) to enp7s0 (the new NIC) and enp9s1 (the ...
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Automatically java run if it stopped [duplicate]
Can i check java process using crontab (or other way) and if java process does not exist automatically perfom command:
nohup java -jar /home/ec2-user/sringTestBoot-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
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how to know if files chksum was change under folder
under /home/app/Jars
we have files ( many jar files )
we want to restart the /home/app/kasandra.sh restart
once chaksum of files under /home/app/Jars was change
how we can do it?
example how to ...
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Range of dates with minutes
I am trying to create a series of dates from 01/01/2010 to 01/02/2010 with the minutes at uneven distances, like so:
2010 1 1 00 00 00
2010 1 1 00 20 00
2010 1 1 00 30 00
2010 1 1 ...
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Linux command to decompress the files in directories and add them back to one archive
Is there a way to decompress gz files in the directory, sub-directory and then add them back to a new gz archive with the same directory and sub-directory structures.
There are more than 8k files and ...
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how to cause ssh delay between two Linux machines
we have redhat machines - version - 7.2
as all know ssh between Linux machines should be fast ( couple m seconds )
but for testing
we want to cause ssh delay between machine - linux 1 to linux 2
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How to segregate data from long sized csv file in linux terminal?
I have a .csv file around 30GB of size. I wanted to grep some lines which should follow multiple string matching condition. What could the correct way to do it using grep, awk or sed? I tried ...
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Network Team name is not getting set properly with kickstart
I am configuring team with kickstart file on CentOS 7.6, All working file except Name of team
I put following code in kickstart
network --device team0 --bootproto static --ip=192.168.127.11 --...
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journal_async_commit is not compatible with older kernels. What would you see in this case?
man ext4 mentions a mount option called journal_async_commit.
Commit block can be written to disk without waiting for descriptor blocks. If enabled older kernels cannot mount the device. This ...
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Linux routing flow
I want to know how Linux uses routing table when reaching out to another ip. As i know for example when we run "ssh 192.168.21.2", system will create the tcp packet with destination ip as 192.168.21.2 ...
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Linux - After reboot, I get a Keyboard Interactive Authentication error. All Network traffic closed it seems
I'm running Centos connecting with Putty.
Starting today, every time I reboot, It forces me to log in as root before it will let me log in with my su. I log into Root, then run su username and then ...
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Remote carriage return if there is only one column
A proprietary command similar to "df" returns me this :
FOO_vol6 1714236984 1685700840 28536144 98% /root_vdm_10/FOO_vol6
FOO_vol4 253851840 64818424 189033416 26%...
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PDI jobs not getting triggered in Linux after using SWAP
I have few PDI jobs scheduled in the morning. Initially the jobs were failing due to this error "Cant Allocate Memory". It was when we decided to add Swap memory.
We have tried setting Swappiness = ...
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Unable to set jupyter notebook password on Linode
Following the Linode documentation to set jupyter notebook server on my linux machine using Apache web service. While setting password for Jupyter notebook I am getting an error
[C 06:18:46.762 ...
