For example, $ xdotool key [ Error: Invalid key sequence '[' Failure converting key sequence '[' to keycodes Error: Invalid key sequence '[' Failure converting key sequence '[' to keycodes $

I found that I can do scp in mc via cd /#sh:radek@firebird from the command line. Is there any way I can save this as a favorite? Maybe even with the password?

I ran rm -drf on my web server and accidentally removed everything inside /var/www/. Of course, it had everything for our website in it. How can I undo this? Or is it possible to restore it to a previous version?

As part of my research work I have to study a rootkit. So I downloaded ncom rootkit and tried installing. It didnt have any installion files. Please help me in installing it.

this is a bc output, e.g.: INPUT: echo "scale=10; BLA-BLA-HERE-NOT-IMPORTANT | bc OUTPUT: .3708446283953709207058828124021300754352578903651372655882743141882\ 77124645102027246581819139527644919407424570060822470537797066353573\ 96635.8038454068 days TWO PROBLEMS: - can the output be "...

I have a couple of files in a directory: $ ls | wc -l 9376 Can anybody explain why there is such a huge time difference in using ls * and ls? $ time ls > /dev/null real 0m0.118s user 0m0.106s sys 0m0.011s and $ time ls * > /dev/null real 1m32.602s user 0m0.233s sys ...

If you want to keep for example a build or server system clean, it is very useful to be able to check that all files are present and accounted for by the package metadata. At work we have a very nice tool which, if run without any parameters, simply creates a file with rm/rmdir statements for any...

I have a big number: 2923174917395723957 that would be: 2,923*10^18 are there any parameters in bc that will give this OUTPUT? e.g.: $ echo '2923174917395723956 + 1' | bc 2,923*10^18 $ Or something similar...the point is that it must have a short look Thank you!

Have tried many windows managers including TWM, xfce and Gnome, but my mouse pointer is gone. It is invisible, but it performs all the actions. If I do the right click the context menu opens and this is how I can tell what the current location of the pointer is. This is a newest stable built of ...

I decided that I want to learn more about Linux and try building LFS. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 as host system and Ubuntu uses dash and mawk by default. I've changed mawk to gawk, but considering that mawk is much faster than gawk I'm thinking that I might want to use mawk anyway. Since making bash...

I want to unzip the contents of a zipfile called mine.zip into /yours/ but when I do it using the -d flag it keeps going into /your/crap/ etc which is not I want Is there a way to do this?

How do I install them? At present, man fopen gives me No manual entry for fopen. I have the compilers installed and have verified that things do build without problems.

Right now I'm essentially executing tail /var/log/syslog manually every once in a while. Is there something that lets me see what's being added continuously, or do I need to write something myself?

I've got auto-completion working for bash. When I type part of a program name, and then TAB, I get the full command. Works like expected, no complaints. However on my setup I've got an alias defined called flexo (which logs me in to a machine with the same name). When I type fle[TAB] I only get ...