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bash xargs: same command gives different output

When I run ls -1 *.a | xargs -I{} echo {} | sed 's/.a//' The output is 1 2 3 When I run ls -1 *.a | xargs -I{} bash -c "echo {} $(echo {} | sed 's/.a//')" and the output is 1.a 1.a 2.a 2.a 3.a ...
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Shell script fails when executed by systemd service

So I have a systemd service called startup.service: [Unit] Description=startup scripts [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/home/user/Documents/Tools/Scripts/startup.sh [Install] WantedBy=multi-user....
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Difficulty getting /etc/rc.d/init.d tomcat startup script working

I have the following startup script that on reboot does not bring up tomcat: #!/bin/bash # # description: Apache Tomcat init script # processname: tomcat # chkconfig: 234 20 80 # ### BEGIN INIT INFO #...
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Grub rescue mode after deleting kali linux

I have a Windows 10 PC where Kali Linux was installed as a dual boot. I deleted the Kali partition from computer management. After I rebooted my PC, I got GRUB rescue mode > unknown filesystem. set ...
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How to drop privileges in a Debian Chroot?

I'm testing some software under Debian X32. Its a chroot environment, and its entered upon as root. Some of the tests are failing because of the root account: make test ... # Failed test 'Testing ...
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Weird error when trying to upgrade to Fedora 24

I'm following the instructions posted on Fedora Magazine (https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-23-workstation-to-fedora-24/). I'm getting this message after dnf downloads everything: Error: ...
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Prevent Matlab from creating java.log.* files in the home directory?

I've recently started using matlab. If started with the jvm, log files will be created in the home directory (a different one every time it starts up). Opening log file: /home/max/java.log.4363 ...
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Why doesn't my web site's port forwarding work?

I have made a website on my Raspberry Pi that works perfectly over the local network. It is running on lighttpd. I have setup a DNS entry on No-IP (pumpkinprograms.ddns.net) and I know that it works ...
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Script not working in crontab

I have a script to start my minecraft server each reboot. I can see in the logs it's calling the cmd, but no screen is being opened. If I work run the script manually /home/minecraft/scripts/...
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Linux OS crash randomly

Randomly, when I tried to open the Linux native browser the computer froze and after a couple minutes went to black and is giving me the error message: [256657.388021] nouveau E[Xorg[1344]] failed to ...
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Why does this email not arrive?

I have been attempting to send an email from the command line to myself, but the message does not appear in my inbox (or in spam or anywhere else). Below is the command I used, and a copy of the log. ...
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Error: Could not find or load main class with OpenJDK and Oracle Java on CentOS 7

On CentOS 7.2 Linux I have successfully downloaded and installed Oracle Java with: # rpm -Uvh jdk-8u91-linux-x64.rpm Also there is already OpenJDK installed: # rpm -qa | grep -i jdk java-1.8.0-...
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SSH connector service

I have a number of linux computers at home, at uni, and my android phone. I'd like some way to be able to SSH to any one of them at any time, but they're all hidden behind different networks, and they ...
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command option confusion in curl on Linux

Wondering what is the function of @ sign? Here is an example command, curl -w "@curl-format.txt" -o /dev/null -s "http://wordpress.com/" Here are more related backgrounds, https://stackoverflow.com/...
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Check if a script completed executing instead of exiting

I'm working with a script that I cannot modify, that does not use exit codes. (all exits are simply 'exit') Without modifying the script (or yelling at the idiots who wrote it), is there a way to ...
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Redirect keyboard input to unfocused program

While one program is focused (a full screen web browser) I want to pass keyboard input to another unfocused program (an ssh terminal) in Raspbian/Pi3.
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init.d how to start a service in init.d when networking fully works?

I have a python script which exposes a RESTful service (using flask framework). What I would like to do with this service is that it clones the newest version of the python script, and then it starts ...
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Errors installing nginx on Linux- wheezy

I have a remote server(Linux debian version: 7.8), which is not connected to outside world due to some security issues at my company. For this wheezy os: I see only version available for nginx is : 1....
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Will running a windows OS in a VM with my graphics card being passed through prevent the host OS from using the graphics cards for display output?

I'm planning on running a linux host OS with a triple monitor setup connected to the graphics card. Of course, I have games that only work on windows so I was planning on running a Windows VM in ...
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gtk_widget_set_realized was not declared in this scope

I'm trying to compile OpenCV 3.1.0 on RHEL 6.4 and getting the following error: [ 34%] Building CXX object modules/highgui/CMakeFiles/opencv_highgui.dir/src/window_gtk.cpp.o /hpcf/libs/opencv/vendor/...
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How do I wait for a connection to be established?

I need to wait until a target host is up and running and accepting connections on a specific port. I want to use this as a part of the ssh -o ProxyCommand command to wait until the target host has ...
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Are device IOs handled even when a device is not opened by any process?

The following shell program examples makes the question clearer. Given a simple character device (a ftdi ttyUSB device in my case), I send it a request with echo to open();write();close(); the device,...
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Missing /var/log/messages file in CentOS 6.8

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but my Linux box doesn't seem to be logging any info to the /var/log/messages file. I've also checked and the kernel isn't logging anything either. My syslog ...
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How to set PHP timezone for cloud based web server distributed to different geographic regions?

I'm getting the following warning while running php -i: PHP Warning: Unknown: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the ...
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How to find the user who is running rsync?

In Linux, if rsync is already running, how can we identify which user is running it? And what if it is running as cron job, will the cron job user be different?
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How to uninstall SmartSVN on Ubuntu

I cannot find any information on how to cleanly uninstall SmartSVN on Ubuntu. I'm not using it at the moment and part of the reason is that on the latest Ubuntu upgrade it has somehow hijacked some of ...
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Dbus: How can I monitor process?

I'm new with Dbus and I'm curious if there is any way to monitor process and see if this process receives any Dbus messages. (I'm working on some project and want to know if Xserver receives any Dbus ...
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Debian Testing, iwlwifi-7260 issue

I'm trying to install Debian Testing but I'm actually stuck in the wifi configuration. It asks for: iwlwifi-7260-13.ucode iwlwifi-7260-14.ucode iwlwifi-7260-15.ucode iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode iwlwifi-...
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Delete files with same size but keep always one file?

I have a directory full of zipfiles, that contain many files. They are created by software and this is currently not fixable. I tried to work with fdupes, but this process took too long, because there ...
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Can not change permissions while root

I use Kali Linux and discovered the following "problem": root@kali:/proc/self# ls -l cmdline -r--r--r-- l root root 0 May 27 13:43 cmdline root@kali:/proc/self# chmod 744 cmdline chmod: changing ...
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Is it really necessary to restart the PC after an update? [duplicate]

This question came to my mind mostly because I rarely restart my Linux laptop, so I wondered if this has any negative consequences. Updating is basically just patching applications, so I could imagine ...
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Java GC Monitoring on Linux

On Windowssystems I use jvisualvm to monitor the GC activity of my programs. Are there any similar tools for linux to do so? I acces the server via putty (ssh), so graphical tools are not supported, ...
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Configure SNMP to send messages to two different monitoring platforms

Is it possible to configure snmpd on Ubuntu (via snmpd.conf) to send messages to two different monitoring applications? For example, lets say I have defined a read only community called 'readonly', ...
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How to allow multiple users to access to the same crontab in Debian Linux v8.4?

I am trying to create a crontab for a group of users, lets call the group "testGroup". There are 3 users, and I want to give all of them access to the same crontab. I did some research and tried to ...
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How to use '!!' (double exclamation) in bash script?

This is the scenario: Sometimes I want to open a list of files using vim. That list of files is output of a command. So I can type vim $(!!) and open those files after running that command. Is it ...
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Debian: php and php5

I'm running a small private Debian Jessie server, acting as a private cloud / hosting platform. Often times, I've faced 'difficulties' installing services with recent PHP requirements because, while ...
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Logitech Dual Action not detected as input device in Linux

For some reason, my gamepad stopped working. It's detected when I plug it into the USB port, but it's not recognized as an input device. dmesg [ 917.280315] usb 1-3: new low-speed USB device ...
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PuTTY Fatal Error Software caused connection abort

long time lurker first time asker. I have a very weird problem, whenever I try to connect to a specific machine on my network from my desktop with Windows 10 I get an error right off the bat. PuTTY ...
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Check how my process was killed

I'm currently running a simple Node.JS server with express.js on my RaspberryPi with Debian installed on it. Everything works fine, but every morning I wake up to see my server isn't running anymore (...
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How force the Client Bacula execute over a specific interface?

my first question here. I have the following backup below: Bacula 5.2 - Ubuntu Server 12 192.168.1.113 Oracle database - Oracle Linux 5.7 192.168.1.24 - eth0 - Used for ERP ...
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How to pass nmap outout to a Python script

I have a list of server, and I want to nmap then pass to a Python parser (this) So normally I do this: nmap -sV -p- hostname -oN - | python nmaptocsv.py > hostname.txt Now I want to create a ...
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Using a particular version of java in a specific directory

My current default version of Java is 7 (which, for now, can't be updated - I know it's reached EOL), but also have Java 8 installed. However, I have some third party jars (all contained in a ...
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Background process with stdOut/StdErr output in files and console

I want to SSH into a machine, start a process, write the stdErr and stdOut of the process into two seperate files while reading the stdOut/stdErr in the console. As soon as some specific lines were ...
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GUI password prompt: `Incorrect password`

I installed Debian Jessie without a desktop environment and installed i3wm afterwards. If I start an application which requires administrative privileges inside i3wm other than by running the command ...
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How can I turn a computer and wireless router into a small network with no Internet connection?

I am looking to make a project for a college club that involves setting up a Linux server (for webpages or a database) and accessing that server over a wireless connection. However, I would like to ...
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Cpanel/WHM not working [closed]

Everything work fine, suddenly today afternoon Both cpanel and WHM stop working. But still the website and SSH work fine, But i am unable to open cpanel or whm, when i opening using IP xxx.xxx.xxx....
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IntelliJ: almost unreadable fonts on linux

As you can see on the screenshot, most of the text on IntelliJ renders as it should, however, on certain elements, such as the code lens, the fonts are almost unreadable. On the Help -> About I ...
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I just installed GMP, where did it install to?

I just installed GMP with ./configure...make and now I cannot seem to find where it installed to. I checked in all the bins I could think of and nothing. It does import correctly when I write a C ...
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force container outbound traffic via another container (without host iptables rules)

I have two containers, A & B. They should exist on a newly created docker (private) bridge network such that: A can talk to the world outside the bridge, but only via specified gateway IP B ...
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Can I use Y / N when I'm prompted with Did you mean: [command]?

I noticed that when you type a command slightly wrong it comes up with did you mean: command_name e.g. git staus git: 'staus' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. Did you mean this? ...
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