I’ve written a few posts about restarting USB service in Ubuntu before. This is an update to that process for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). As of Ubuntu Jaunty, the usb kernel module is called usb_storage.
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In this tutorial I’m going to show how to list the installed packages on a Debian based operating system, (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Sidux, CrunchBang, etc.) I got this gem of a command line one-liner from the Sidux website. This command is useful if you want to replicate a GNU/Linux installation from one computer to another. …
Continue reading How To List The Installed Packages on a Debian Based SystemSometimes you get a bunch of files that are named in an annoying way and you’d like to change the naming convention for all of them. Maybe you forgot to change the settings on your CD ripping software and it ended up creating a bunch of long file names that you don’t like. I recently …
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Bulk Rename Files With renameThere are times when you will want to trim some information from the output of a command. This may be because you want to feed that output into another command. Whatever the reason for wanting to manipulate the output, awk is one of many tools available in GNU/Linux to perform this task.
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Cut Fields With awkEdit: Oct. 2, 2010 – I’ve written a new post that shows a bash one-liner command that will remove the old kernels from your system in one step. You can check it out here. If you’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for a while, then you probably have a number of Linux kernel updates that have …
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