How to mount a partition on Linux and make your old home directory accessible to your user To add a directory in a mounted drive as a folder accessible by a normal user, use this command to change the ownership of all files and directories to that of your current user. [root@darkstar Videos]# chown -R … Read more
This simple command will search for a folder named xray* and then switch to it. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents] └──╼ ╼ $ cd $(find . -type d -name "xray*")┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents] └──╼ ╼ $ cd $(find . -type d -name "xray*") After running this command, it has found a folder that matches the wildcard and then switched to it. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents/xray-16] … Read more
Using SSH is a very good way to connect to another computer that is running Linux, it is also possible to mount a folder on the remote machine over a network and access it on your local computer. This is a very good way to access remote files. Firstly, install sshfs. 4.4 Thu Nov 21 … Read more
Windows has quite a few useful utilities for searching text. The findstr utility allows searching through a folder full of text files for a certain string. Here is an example. >findstr /S /R "money_quest_update" *.*>findstr /S /R "money_quest_update" *.* And this is how to search for text strings in a folder. E:\shadowofchernobyl\gamedata>findstr /S /R "money_quest_update" … Read more
Setting up a file share in Samba is very easy. I am using Ubuntu 17.10. Firstly, install Ubuntu, then install the Samba server. jason@kaio:~$ sudo apt install sambajason@kaio:~$ sudo apt install samba Then create a folder to share from. I made one in the root directory named Share then I added the entries below to … Read more
This command will set all new files in the directory to all default to the permissions set to the parent directory. This is very useful when creating a new directory and you wish to ensure that the files therein have correct permissions. jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo setfacl -R -d -m o::rwx Documents/ [sudo] password for jason:jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo … Read more
Creating an ISO image of a directory is useful sometimes. This command will create an ISO image of a directory, ready to burn to a CD or DVD. jason@darknet:~$ genisoimage -l -V hi -r ~/Downloads/stuff > cdrom.isojason@darknet:~$ genisoimage -l -V hi -r ~/Downloads/stuff > cdrom.iso Here is example usage, creating an ISO of a directory … Read more
This is a neat trick that allows you to use cat to view the contents of a directory. This library is loaded before the cat command is executed and modifies its behavior to allow you to use cat to list a directory. #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <dirent.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include … Read more
I recently had to move some folders to my home directory on my Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 installation as the root user and I then had to change the ownership of the folders and the files within to my current user. For example, I copied the ~/.themes folder to my home folder and I had to … Read more