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The following script is supposed to check $1 and see if it is a specific value. It only works when one Bash [[... =~ ...]] regex check is passed in an if statement. The error is: When more than one ...

FAT isn't meant to record file access time, but the FAT filesystem I have in a VeraCrypt container file does. Why is this? This was before I opened the file /run/media/veracrypt1/test: ~ $ stat /run/...

find takes an (optional) list of (what the man page calls) "starting points", i.e. directories, followed by an expression. Is there a way to cleanly separate both types of arguments so that ...

man crontab reads: The -e option is used to edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables. After you exit from the editor, the modified ...

I've tried using sed for this. I've tried putting the lines of interest in variables as well. I have two examples I want to achieve for now. Lets say I have thousands of urls in a file called links....

On my Arch system, failed attempts to run sudo cause a line like this to be added to the logs (note the USER=root): Nov 20 14:59:31 oregano sudo[191472]: bob : user NOT in sudoers ; TTY=pts/26 ; ...

There is a headless machine, with Debian as its OS: $ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 11 \n \l $ uname -a Linux mymachine 6.1.99 #33 SMP Tue Jan 21 11:32:39 CST 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux What I wish to ...

Suppose we have a script named test_sort in our $PATH with the following contents: #!/bin/bash function echo_text () { printf -- "%s\n" "$fc$oc$fs$lc" printf -- "%s\n&...

On this filesystem, there are enough inodes already, I only need more filesystem size: # df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/mapper/spinning-backup ...

Logical way would be to use an 's/[\[\]]/_/g' regexp replace, however it does not work as intended to. It replaces a chain of [ and ] with a single _. $ echo 'x[]x'|sed -E -e 's/[\[\]]/_/g' x_x $ echo ...

Just in theory: is it possible to replace the domain string in the compiled binary file with an IP address by editing a binary file in place with sed? (IP address belongs to a different domain, but ...

It's often that when I am in a subject involving many processes of two or three kinds, I'm noticing that: one terminal I've opened is dedicated for my subject of kind #1, while another is opened to ...

So, I was playing around with this answer, when I found that neither printf_stdin () { read input printf "$input" } sed "/lorem ipsum foobar/ { s/'/'\"'\"'/g s/\...

$ wine cmd /c 'echo "hello world"' \"hello world\" Where do the backslashes come from? The command behaves differently in an interactive session: $ wine cmd Microsoft Windows 6.1....

On x86, the solution would be either PAE, but yet better is to use a 32-bit system with a 64-bit kernel. The physical memory of the planned 32-bit ARM system is only 3GB. I would like to increase it, ...