I am not very good with bash in ubuntu, more of a power windows user. I have say a git repo on windows, say I am coding an html page, index.html or whatever. I save this in my git repo locally on windows, then I commit to at github.com/myusername/myrepo to say the master branch. How would I w...

While working on ubuntu, I have edited sudoers file and allowed myself to run only mkdir, cd command. Now I am unable to execute, install any command. Even visudo is not working despite providing root password. How can I edit sudoers?

I am trying to pass a variable into jq like this '.Linux.date.$var' so far I have tried quoting them by name which is working fine. But I want to use variable to call them. I have this, which is working fine cp $check_exec_history $check_exec_history.tmp jq --arg key1 true --arg key2 "$exectime...

everyone, I would like to know if it is possible to discover when my laptop camera was used over the past 7 days, for example. Is there a log for that? I'm running on a Ubuntu 18 machine.

My problem in one picture : The memory usage of xorg as a child process of sddm keeps growing with time. Everytime I restart my computer, the problem reappears after a few dozens of minutes. I tried to troubleshoot with the logfile but it seems to be empty. I did not find an answer in the sim...

So I have a device here that doesn't get recognized as an USB serial device. (so no COM-port is dedicated to the device) Can I force Linux to use my device as an USB serial one and give it a COM port? (I'm using Ubuntu 16, and the device is device 106 according to Linux)

Let say I have the following exemplary bash script: sudo command1 command2 sudo command3 As soon as I execute the script, sudo command1 asks for my password. I don't want to run command2 as root. Unfortunately, command2 takes about 2 hours to complete. So when the script reaches sudo command3,...

I have Ubuntu 18.10 and I am having RAM of about 8GB. Well, although this amount of RAM is kind of enough for normal Linux Programming but in my case, it is completely filled. This results in poor use of Ubuntu. Please someone help. I have seen discussion on this topic and it is generally due to ...

After a recent update on my dual boot hp laptop with secure boot disabled, whenever I switch back to linux (from windows 10) on the default kernel (4.4.0-145) the boot process gets stuck in this loop with the basic error message: Unexpected IRQ trap at vector 07 I've taken pictures and posted ...

I have laptop with both discrete (GTX 1050) and integrated graphic cards. lspci gives this: ▶ lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D" 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 630 (Mobile) 01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] (rev a1) I've instal...