I'm trying mirror a website where it has page `http://www.site.com/news` and contents `http://www.site.com/news/36-news/news-one` `http://www.site.com/news/36-news/news-two` `http://www.site.com/news/36-news/another-news-here` This is what I'm using wget -m -Dsite.com -e robots=off -r -q -...

You'll have to forgive me, as I'm relatively new at doing something like this, but I need to do the following and I know that it has and can be done. Basically, a few friends and me are assembling some lightweight machines with the express purpose of displaying a single web page over a large sc...

Within a set of directories,how to find a file whose name including a given string, such as "abcde"? Thx.

I decided to change the /home directory inside the file system and move the home directory to a separate parition. But, since I am using more than one linux distros, I am seperate the /home directories as something like this /dev/sdax/ubuntu /dev/sdax/debian /dev/sdax/suse After copying all th...

I am trying to write a script that basically searches recursively using find (or another method to) to find all files ending with *.p or *.w but does not contain sysvars.i or preprocess.i I am new to scripting and welcome any help, is find the best command to use etc?

does anyone have any experience with SVN, GIT, MERCURIAL on linux server? I want to make the whole VPS machine. I want for every product a web interface. Ideal situation is that it works only as svn, git and mercurial and data would be stored at different place. If you have some experience, pleas...

I was wondering what relations and differences are between computer terminal and virtual console/terminal? Quoted from Wikipedia A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that is used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a co...

I have a DVD+RW containing a lot of images and videos. Multiple DVD drives fail to read or mount it. I tried to follow this to try and recover the files using DVDisaster, and have created an iso file. But after that, I am lost. The instructions apply to a video DVD, not a data one, so the "split"...

I have a bunch of random folders, some of them are hidden (beginning with a period). I want to list all of them, sorted by their sizes. I have something on the lines of this in mind: ls -d -1 -a */ | xargs du -s | sort But the ls ... part of it doesn't show hidden files. I know some question...

I was wondering if the following two ways of running a bash script are equivalent? . ./myScript.sh source myScript.sh Are they both running the content of the script instead of running the script, i.e. not creating a subshell for running the script? Thanks!

I am trying to create a permanant access point to a windows share from a CentOS 5.5 machine. I edited the /etc/fstab file to have the following entry: //travellot/ArcGIS Setup's/9.3.1 Entire/ArcGIS_Server_ent_Unix /home/thomasm/shares/agslinux cifs username=thomasm,dom=cssl,password=******* ...

RAMFS doesn't uses swap (TMPFS does). So I mount the FS cd /mnt/; mkdir SOMETHING; mount -t ramfs -o size=1500m ramfs /mnt/SOMETHING; cd /mnt/SOMETHING I generate a testfile: dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile_500MB bs=524288000 count=1 I cp the test file (from memory to memory) time cp testfile_...

I am using Carbon-Emacs on MacOS X 10.6 with the US-International keyboard layout. Usually, I can use Alt+s to print the letter "ß". However, Emacs interprets this as Meta+s and complains that there is no command bound to that shortcut. So my questions are: How can I create such a shortcut? Is ...

Is there a keyboard shortcut I can use to make a window occupy the left or right half of the screen? I'm using a modified version of Ubuntu. On Mac I just use Divvy but I'm not sure if there is a Linux tool to do the same thing.

POSIX thread (pthread) and OpenMP are both libraries for thread programming. But is it right that they are not native to Linux, i.e. they have to be installed by user later? If yes, what are the native library or functions in Linux? Are they used to implement pthread and OpenMP? To draw a paral...

I know that it is possible to write arbitrary data into /dev/dsp and a noise will come up from the speakers. But whatever data I pass to this file the noise is the same. I wonder is it possible to generate some meaningful sound just by writing to /dev/dsp

I have a number of machines which I'll be deploying in the near future. As suggested here, I could use network booting to get these computers online without even having a hard disk in them. According to user Caleb: You can setup server with a netbook kernel available via TFTP and a file syste...

I have not being able to understand the synopsis in manpage of a command. For example, let's see the manpage of man itself. By man man: SYNOPSIS man [-C file] [-d] [-D] [--warnings[=warnings]] [-R encoding] [-L locale] [-m system[,...]] [-M path] [-S list] [-e extension] [...

I'm going to be deploying a number of machines in the near future which will be behind routers. It won't be feasible to set up dynamic DNS on each router and port forwarding, so is there a way I can configure these machines to initiate a TCP connection to my computer and then have my computer ini...

So lets say you boot up your linux install all the way to the desktop. You start up a gnome-terminal/konsole/whatever so you have a tty to enter commands to. Now lets say I SSH into that same machine. It will bind me to another tty to enter commands to. Now lets say I want to "switch" my tty ...

How do I log into my Linux laptop if I have forgotten both the username and password?

I need to build a custom Debian-based distribution to be easily and quickly installable on multiple machines. How can I build a distribution like this and package it so I can either Install it via a bootable USB drive Flash it onto the hard disk of the machines so no install will be necessary....

What is the first Linux kernel release to set relatime as a default mount option?

For some reason, on my office machine, every Linux Live-CD either takes forever to boot or goes to a terminal interface instead of the expected GUI. I used to boot to an Ubuntu 10.10 Live-CD and Live-Thumb-Drive on a regular basis. Today I tried the Live-CDs for GParted (got a terminal interfac...