Having installed and used Ubuntu 20.10 and 20.04.2, I realised that my HP Envy Laptop’s brightness was being set to minimum by default. Though I could just increase it with brightness keys on my keyboard, I was having to do this on every boot. So I started to look for a solution. It seems Ubuntu […]
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Read more "Address already in use errors – Find and kill process"When you want to recursively copy files from one directory to another, use find and pipe its output to cpio. find . -name ‘*.jpg’ | cpio -pdm /path/to/<dest_dir> This will find all files with extension ‘jpg’ and copy them to <dest_dir> directory. cpio -pdm copies files to destination directory and also creates the directory structure. […]
Read more "Linux – Copy files recursively preserving directory structure"A vulnerability has been discovered in Bash shell (default shell in many Linux OSs) . To check if your bash version is affected, issue the folowing command on the Terminal: env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable’ bash -c ‘echo hello’ Vulnerable bash would show the folowing text: vulnerable hello If you are not vulnerable, you […]
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