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I have 2 storage devices; classical slow HDD (750GB, /dev/sda) and faster SSD (128GB, /dev/sdb). Currently I have installed Ubuntu & Mint on same btrfs partition on SSD (/dev/sdb5). My btrfs pool consists of /dev/sdb5.

Upstart on Debian?

August 5, 2022 by cs_admin

I created an upstart script in Ubuntu, thinking it would be the same for Debian. But Debian doesn’t have a /etc/init folder that Ubuntu has. I went to the upstart download page and seeing that they have packages, did a apt-get install upstart, but it asks to remove sysvinit, which I know will/might screw up my system. So how do I make my Ubuntu script work on Debian?

Directory with +x permission, parents without it. When would this be useful?

August 5, 2022 by cs_admin

Say I have a folder called folder in the following path:

tee stdout to stderr?

August 5, 2022 by cs_admin

I’d like to send stdout from one process to the stdin of another process, but also to the console. Sending stdout to stdout+stderr, for instance.

Why does this BSD grep result differ from GNU grep?

August 5, 2022 by cs_admin

My computer is running macOS 10.12.3 and I am using the system-installed grep utility with version 2.5.1-FreeBSD.

How is the order in which tar works on files determined?

August 5, 2022 by cs_admin

The question: $ touch dir/{{1..8},{a..p}} $ tar cJvf file.tar.xz dir/ dir/ dir/o dir/k dir/b dir/3 dir/1 dir/i dir/7 dir/4 dir/e dir/a dir/g dir/2 dir/d dir/5 dir/8 dir/c dir/n dir/f dir/h dir/6 dir/l dir/m dir/j dir/p I would have expected it to be alphabetical. But apparently it’s not. What’s the formula, here? The Solutions: Below are … Read more