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…
Read MoreThis 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 $(find . -type d -name "xray*") After running this command, it has found a folder that matches the wildcard and…
Read MoreUsing SSH is a very good way to connect to another computer that is running Linux, it is also possible to mount a folder on the remote machine over a network and access it on your local computer. This is a very good way to access remote files. Firstly, install…
Read MoreWindows has quite a few useful utilities for searching text. The findstr utility allows searching through a folder full of text files for a certain string. Here is an example. >findstr /S /R "money_quest_update" *.*>findstr /S /R "money_quest_update" *.* And this is how to search for text strings in a…
Read MoreSetting up a file share in Samba is very easy. I am using Ubuntu 17.10. Firstly, install Ubuntu, then install the Samba server. jason@kaio:~$ 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…
Read MoreThis 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/…
Read MoreCreating 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…
Read MoreThis 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>…
Read MoreI 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…
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