I'm trying to run a home radio server here, and when I run one of the programs.. It continues to run and I cant go back to type any other commands to finish the process. Is there a special key combination that'll get me back to to the command line without killing or stopping the process?
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In Windows, if I have a console window open, type winmine, and press enter, Minesweeper will appear, completely separate from the cmd program. The Minesweeper instance is not tied to the command prompt in any way that I know of, with the exception of Minesweeper's parent being set to that instance of the command prompt. It's different in Linux, however.
In Linux, if I have a console window open, type emacs and press enter, Emacs will open, but it seems tied to the command line. Specifically, it appears that I can't use the command line anymore until that instance of Emacs is closed. Is there a way to replicate the Windows behavior in Linux?
I just started using ubuntu after being a long time windows user.
what i find really interesting is that in command line, i can type many programs and commands, eg firefox can be run via command line from anywhere. In windows cmd prompt, im used to having to run the .exe file by first navigating to it, then being able to run the .exe.
what i wanna know is how does linux know all the programs at the command line?
How do I find out which command line programs are installed and what do they do?
View 9 Replies View RelatedOn our server we have a certain directory, say /storage, that contains many large files. They are all compressed (gzip). Many of our users are not computer-savvy, and so when one of these files is needed, they will copy it to their own directory. Consequently, we have multiple terabytes of duplicate data. I'd like to enforce an alias whereby if someone tries to use cp on a file from /storage, they will instead create a symbolic link. My idea was something like:
alias cp='cp.storage'
File cp.storage:#!/bin/sh
truePath=$(readlink -f "$1")
[code]....
The conditional checks whether the file being copied begins with "/storage". The problem with this is that if someone wanted to use cp with any options on a file not in /storage, those options would be obliterated. Can someone guide me as to a good way to accomplish this? Either a way to get the options from cp into cp.storage, or another approach not using alias this way. Everyone will be using bash.
I'm trying to create a liveCD/USB for use of myself and my family. The idea is to set up the LiveCD to look like their used to seeing it. I know I can just copy the homedirectory but I wanted to do it via script so new user accounts could also have the common bells and whistles we use.So really I have two questions.1. Is it possible to add programs to the Gnome Tool Bar from command line? aka via a script2. Is it possible to modify the default panel template so new users get my changes?
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$ (something) -l 154 stuff.py
150: def foo(bar):
151: """
[code]....
How can I print Linux command line history without including the line numbers? I want to send it all to a text file like this:history >> history.txt
View 1 Replies View Relatedi've gotten my fedora 12 to the point where i can run python3 scripts from command line and can call up python 2.6.2 idle with the command 'idle' from command line. what command will call up python3 (3.1.2 to be exact) idle?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI know my way around MS Windows much better, but I just don't feel right trying to program something for Android on a Microsoft operating system. I am interested in Android programming so I followed the instructions on [URL] to install the environment on my computer...
I just installed the JDK, SDK, Eclipse successfully (or I assume):
* When I get to Step 4 where I'm supposed to run 'android' it will not run. I get the error message "android: command not found" (I am definitely in the right directory).
** When I double-click it in nautilus, it opens up in gedit. I can set the permissions in nautilus (through the properties - Allow executing file as a program) and get it to work,
My system:
Intel i7
Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
android-sdk-linux-x86
eclipse 3.6.2
I installed the Berkeley DB on the Ubuntu server and tried to access the dbxml from the command line and it returns command not found
path/to/dir/dbxml-2.5.16/install/bin$dbxml
-bash" dbxml: command not found
Can someone point me in the right direction
how do you write the ASCII character #27 in the vim command line?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have recently began to use libav and had an issue I was running into.. Not exactly how to word it so I will simply state the symptoms..
Goal: Create a screencast demo on linux, play it back on a windows machine.
I am running this command to record the screen, installed libav:
avconv -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1600x900 -i :0.0 -vcodec libx264 -threads 4 /home/sysadmin/Desktop/output.avi
The issue I am running into is, when I try to play this file in Windows Media Player or even VLC on the linux host, the default size of the video results in the text in the terminal to be unreadable..
When I re-size the video, as in blow it up to full screen, I can see the text clearly..
The playback device is running something like 1280x1020 resolution. Is there a way to make it so that the text will also be readable?
Does anyone know of a commercial program that will run on openSUSE?I need something that is fairly user friendly, identifies individual voices, and does not require Wine. The machine is to be completely controlled by voice and would be programmed to issue vocals in response to vocal requests for what is in the various databases and I/O software, such as motion control and other sensor subsystems. In other words, a program that lends itself to AI robotics.I do not have the time to develop CMSphinx, and I am willing to pay. I have been on a few sites but they are cryptic as far as the technicals, which I do not fully understand anyway.
View 1 Replies View Relatedtrying to install the latest NVIDIA drivers:
I need to disable the X server to install it, which brings me to a blank screen prompting for a login before continuing. it reads thusly:
Ubuntu 9.10 chris-linux
chris-linux login: [i would assume i put in chris here...]
Password:[i type the password i use to login from the normal GUI screen, however i see no indication that im typing anything..]
Login incorrect
Just want to know what OS is, Fedora/RH/... Tried the following on a redhat machine:
uname -o : GNU/Linux
less /proc/version:
Linux version 2.6.18-164.el5 (mockbuild@x86-002.build.bos.redhat.com)
(gcc version 4.1.2 20080704) (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)) #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 15:51:54 EDT 2009
What is the right command to do it?
I can click the "movie player" from the GUI of Ubuntu, but how could I know the corresponding command line cmd. I want to run the movie player from commmand line. And this is not only about the background command for the movie player, I want to know all the actual command that was run by the x-window shell when I click on one of the icon on the menu.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI need to convert thousands of DDS images to PNG format in Linux, preferably in command line. Is there any program available for such task?
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one.tar.gz
$ tar -xvfz one.tar.gz
tar: z: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
$ tar -xvzf one.tar.gz
one
$ tar -xzvf one.tar.gz
one
$ tar -zxvf one.tar.gz
one
$
What command(s) do I type in the terminal to put the computer to sleep?
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I can get to the GUI using startx, but in doing so I lose all audio output, and the option to shutdown or reboot from both CairoDock and the default panel...
I was trying to learn more about xorg configuration and came through an exercise that should be run at run level 3. So, I wrote init 3 in the command line then the x server stopped and the system was trying to enter run level 3 but then it hangs and nothing happens. At that time I was connected to the system via putty and wrote the command init 5 and the x server started again normally. I tried init 3 again and had the same thing.
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow can I split a line in vim into 2. example :
original line :
welcome to linux questions
after splitting :
welcome to
linux questions
Is there a single key strike through which i can do it ? like going to the word "to" and striking that key will put rest of the words in new line. ( i want to do it in normal mode , not in the usual insert mode where it obviously can be done by typing <Enter> )
I typed in sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop and it tells me it's already installed. Good. So it should work. I type sudo/etc/init.d/gdm start and the screen goes blank for 8 seconds three times in a row and then back to the command line. I have also tried gdm start without the path before and it says GDM already running. Aborting! I have 8.10 and it's a valid disk (no errors).
View 14 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to concatenate two command in one line.
Below are the commands:
Code:
I wanted to list all files in /portal/apll/nad/send and grep only .tmp files that contains credit card word.
i'm using ubuntu with the GUIi have a .pps (power point presentation) on the desktop. I installed the powerpoint viewer and made it the default program for opening the file.when i double click on the file everything works.my problem is i need this on a schedule so i downloaded scheduled task.in scheduled task they ask me the command line i want to execute and that's where it doesn't work. I checked the "allow executing file as program" box on the file but i get the error cannot execute binary file.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI really would like to learn all I can about using the command line. So if anyone knows of a good tutorial please let me know. I am running Ubuntu 10.10.
View 3 Replies View Relatedim installing gentoo on to my lappy and i have one problem if i do a command like help or something to that affect half of the commands dissapper so how do i scroll on it
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View 3 Replies View RelatedResolved before asked: cat /proc/1111/status | grep PPid
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