How can I copy a file using DOS commands into a directory structure that may not yet exist? I need to be able to force the creation of the directory path to the target file location if that location …

I have an interactive shell script, that at one place needs to ssh to another machine (Ubuntu based) and execute something as root (the user should enter his password, but the remote command should …

I'm trying to repair LILO on a Debian server. I'm trying to chroot, with chroot /mnt/boot /etc/csh and I get: chroot: cannot run command '/etc/csh': Permission denied How can I perform a chroot?

I recently tried to reformat one of the partitions in my dual boot PC. I originally had XP and then installed 7 as a dual boot. Well, long story short, XP was having problems, so I reformatted the XP …

Under Ubuntu 9.10, where can I place an alias command that will be valid to all users, root or otherwise, and that will work with a shell under GNOME as well as an ssh session and plain console login …

Hi all, I've a directory containing around 2.8 lacs of files. I want to move them to another directory. If I use 'cp' or 'mv' then I get an error 'argument list too long'. If I write a script like …

Hello, Currently i have GRUB2 with Ubuntu 9.10 installed, including 2 other O/S. I have an entry for an o/s in my grub.cfg: menuentry "My OS" { insmod ntfs rootnoverify (hd0,6) …

What's the difference between cd abc/xyz/ and cd abc/xyz What's the importance of / at the end? Which is the right way of using it? Because both seem to work properly.

Hello we have made a little program to upload an .zip file to an FTP server, and when I connect to the FTP server with FileZilla to see everything is ok I can't see the uploaded file. But if connect …

Possible Duplicate: Monitor network traffic of each application… First of all, I am on a slow Internet connection and it really pisses me out if something gets downloaded in background (like …

reg import RegFile.reg How to check return code of this command ?

is there a program that listens to a specific port and executes an arbitrary executeable on incoming connection to that port? the reason: sometimes itunes is not running, then id like to be able to …

I prefer using "less" to reading logfiles. As opposed to "tail -f" I can both follow (Shift + F), stop (Ctrl + C), and navigate up and down u and d, etc. Now what I really would like is the ability …

Hi all, I have connected to a unix server using ssh from my terminal. But i am having a windows client. How to copy files from the unix server to the windows client. Can i use the scp and rcp …

By typing fsquirt in run command,a bluetooth file transfer wizard opens. If we click next and select either of them it won`t works.So can you explain me,how does it works ? and how to connect the …