I was trying to navigate by terminal and tried to change directories by typing- cd ./documents and terminal states no such directory. I can only navigate folders that I created with mkdir. Do I need to set permissions somewhere? Yes documents does exist in my home folder and I tried to open others with no luck.
View 1 RepliesI need to know what commands we have people run in the terminal in order to help them troubleshoot their issue. The reason being, is I was reading a thread where someone was stating about how they had to do all this and all that from a terminal and what not and that there should be a GUI Tool.
Well I'm going to make a GUI tool that allows them to obtain all the necessary information (and fixes are possible too) to help with their issue that they're currently having. For example: I know we run lsmod for sound issues, but what other commands do you have them run to check sound, video, network, etc. It will be made in wxPython so that it can be easily sent to others. If it becomes quite useful, then maybe we could get it in the repos.
I am looking for a terminal app that will allow me to save my password and maybe set up some sessions since I often log into multiple machines each day. Also is there something out there that will allow me to save common commands to a hot key?
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View 1 Replies View Relatedi started using computer when it was all dos driven so thought i was going to be fine using the terminal in ubuntu the problem i am facing is i can not quite get my head round why is it if i load the terminal. and the first this i type is dir or ls it gives me a list off directories. So why is it if i type cd /pictures i get no such file or directory ? Confused
This also bugging the jebus out off me is i am trying to get into my usb pen drive from the terminal to run a program i have on there.
so i type cd /media
then typed ls
is displayed New Volume <-- This being the name off my pen drive
i have tried every this to get into there but the commands i would use in dos are not playing ball.
Can some one please explain how to get into my usb pen then tell me were i can go read on this as i really can not get my head around this at moment.
below are the details of my system. I have bash as my current shell, some really common commands aren't working.
Do I need to do a re-installation of bash? Or how do I install a selection of bash commands which I need? (for example a subset of [URL])
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root@sdptfw:~ # uname -a
Linux sdptfw.sdpt.co.za 2.4.36 #1 Tue Jul 22 13:13:24 GMT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
root@sdptfw:~ # echo $SHELL$
/bin/bash$
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if you do the command conky in terminal, it starts conky ofcourse, but it also shows output to that terminal so you can't do any other commands to that terminal, Is their an option like you can do with the '&' sign in other cases? If you do the '&' sign with conky it still gives output, also the conky -d command gives output...
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php53-common-5.3.3-1.el5_6.1.i386 from updates has depsolving problems
--> php53-common conflicts with php-common
Error: php53-common conflicts with php-common
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I have reinstall it twice but each time i get same error.
Code:
sudo apt-get upgrade
Lots of text (Reading database. dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: unable to open files list file for package `grub-common': Input/output error E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
I am in the process of coverting some video files to motion jpeg (Wii) files with ffmpeg (great program by the way). I have been successful and so the majority of my work is over. My question is simple (I think) but complex to me so... here it goes. Is there a way on one command line to "batch" convert 8 or 9 files together instead of one by one. I just don't know what to put on the command line. I took one UNIX class a long time ago and the terms pipe and such come to mind... but I forget. Any takers? That was I can write what I want the computer to do in the morning and just come back after work and voila...
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI was following a guide to stop Ubuntu from always asking the root password. And apparently i messed something up in vsudo edit or something like that i was in... So now when i put in a sudo command i get this...
Quote:
>>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 18 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 18
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
so i cant even get back to undo what i edited.
I am trying to boot debian on my nexus one the guide i am using is telling me to run these commands
I am getting to the point where i type the command # cd /sdcard/debian but it tells me cd: can't cd to /sdcard/debian.
I've created a bash shell script, to open a few graphical programs. Trouble is, the next one doesn't start until I close the first one. How can I just skip to the next program?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI upgraded to 11.04 today and wanted to reconfigure so that I could have the desktop cube again. Once I started trying to switch my settings for the cube configuration compiz asked whether I wanted to turn off various features and apparently among them was the control bar on the side and top of the screen. Now I log in to Ubuntu and I get my workspace and that's it. No control bars, just the workspace. I need to know a few things:
1) Has anyone else had this problem?
2) How do I get into the terminal from keyboard commands?
3) What terminal commands do I need to bring back at least the main toolbar so I can access programs.
Im new to ubuntu and I was wondering if someone could list some basic terminal commands and explain what they do, and when and why you would use them.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if there was a way to show all current actions I am doing in a terminal window? For example if I left a terminal window open on one of my desktops, could I make it display everything I am doing so that when I receive some general error in a program, I could jump over and get some more details. I could also use it to see what commands are actually run when I do certain things.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI added this:
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clear
fortune | cowsay | echo
to the bottom of my .profile expecting a cow to tell me a fun quote whenever i pull up a terminal. It hasn't done anything, however. How do I achieve my desired effect?
This is the commands wallpaper for desktop. I hope you all will like it... [URL]
View 8 Replies View RelatedI mean, obviously I can just type them out and italicize them or something equally boring, but what I'd like to do is make the code look like it does on these forums.Code:sudo apt-get install html-knowledgeI've been Googling like a mad man (not a euphemism) for the better part of an hour and can't turn up any pertinent results. I thought maybe somebody here could point me in the right direction. I'm tired of my blog posts looking ugly and disorganized when I start typing commands.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWe have created a stripped own version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and removed the screen saver and power management options from the desktop as we have turned off the menu. The reason for this is security as we do not want users having any other options then what shows on the desktop. What is the sudo command to get back to this or do I need to under the administrator profile Create a Launcher icon?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI wonder if there is a directory for a terminal commands that may I can backup the commands I have used in the terminal before.
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhile trying to make a Winmodem work, I've installed drivers, done magic incantations in Terminal, etc., without keeping complete records of what I did. Is there a "clean" routine or something that will remove unused drivers, or do a system rollback, or some other way to clean up the mess?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a terminal window running a game server in Ubuntu 11.04. no problems at all.I also have a backup script, which simply uses cp to save copies of the level files. this is run as a scheduled task every 20 minutes.What i'm trying to do, is as part of the backup script issue a command in the game server terminal window (forcing a save of the level) before the cp command takes place.
Two days of googling and i have failed to find a solution, anyone have any ideas?one thing i was also trying to figure out is how to identify the game server terminal window, maybe by changing the 'Terminal' text at the top. is this possible?
With xterm, I can do the following, and the scripts are executed sequentially in a single xterm: xterm -e 'script1.sh;script2.sh' But with gnome-terminal, when I do: gnome-terminal -e script1.sh;script2.sh It runs them in parallel in 2 different terminals. I've tried a few combinations of ", and ', around the scrips, but no difference.
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