Ubuntu Server: How to See Group Members
The scenario is this. Your file listing is showing you that a file belongs to a particular group, but now the next question that you...
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Ubuntu Server: How to Move or Copy Files Starting with a Dash (-)
September 16, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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It’s not often that you do run into this particular problem, but when you do it is a bit of an annoyance – most Ubuntu...
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Ubuntu Terminal: How to set a User’s Shell to Bash
August 19, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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Given an installation of Ubuntu Server (or pretty much any other Linux variant that requires you to use a terminal), changing a user’s shell is...
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Ubuntu Server: How to Free up Disk Space
April 3, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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Every now and then your server will throw up its hands and declare that it has run out of space, which means that you need...
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Solved: Print Error – PPD version is not Compatible with Gutenprint
January 12, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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For some or other reason my Canon IP4500 printer simply stopped printing on my Ubuntu 12.10 box in the office. Accessing the Printers under the...
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Ubuntu: How to Setup a SSH Tunnel via a Terminal
October 26, 2012
by Craig Lotter
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SSH tunnels are useful beasts in that they allow you to communicate with machines and ports on a private network which are not directly accessible...
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Ubuntu: How to add a Suffix (or Prefix) to a Line of Text in a Text File using AWK
June 18, 2012
by Craig Lotter
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If you are looking for a top notch tool to carry out quick text manipulations on text files under Ubuntu terminal, you could probably do...
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How to test if a Crontab is working in Ubuntu
June 15, 2012
by Craig Lotter
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Editing your cron jobs with the crontab -e command will ensure that your crontab is at least syntactically correct, by not installing it unless it...
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How to add a Comment or Remark to a Crontab in Ubuntu
June 8, 2012
by Craig Lotter
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To add a comment or remark in your Ubuntu crontab is trivially easy, following the standard for adding comments already found in bash scripting. In...
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Ubuntu Terminal: How to View the Current CHMOD Octal Value of a File or Folder
March 21, 2012
by Craig Lotter
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Linux (and thus Ubuntu) file access permissions often get in your way if you aren’t a power user, but if you have played around with...
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