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    [SOLVED] Re: Bash Script - advance formatting

    Pipe the output into sed, then instruct sed to only print certain line numbers



    mminfo train.avi | sed -n '1,14,15p'


    I'd suggest a different method, though
    I can see the line numbers...
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    [SOLVED] Re: SSH with file browser interface?

    Also have a look at sshfs
    Fuse filesystem for mounting a directory on a remote machine over SSH
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    [ubuntu] Re: new to ubuntu and cant save in web folder

    Probably cleaner to add your user to the www-data group, but either should do
  4. Thread: libvirt API

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    Re: libvirt API

    Yep
    http://libvirt.org/bindings.html
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    [ubuntu] Re: Security with mixed OS's

    Don't really know much about windows security (been out of the windows world for too long), but I'd err on the side of caution/paranoia.

    I'd plan for anyone owning the windows box being able do...
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    Re: libvirt API

    Yes,
    although there's loads of web-based libvirt management tools already, so you may well be reinventing the wheel

    See http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Management_Tools
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    Re: 2012 - What OS do you use?

    Home
    Desktop - Gentoo
    Netbook - Ubuntu 12.04
    Media Centre - Mythbuntu 10.04
    File Server - Ubuntu Server 10.04

    Work
    Workstation - Gentoo
    Servers - mix of Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo & Mandriva
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    [ubuntu] Re: Lost my admin rights

    You are not root
    You cannot do this as an unprivileged user

    Assuming your issue is the same as the OP (which you don't say), then you need to boot into single user mode (AKA recovery mode), as...
  9. [SOLVED] Re: How secure is Ubuntu compared to other operating systems?

    No, he's misinformed

    A piece of software is a piece of software
    Open or closed source, it's still the same code
    If a program is intentionally nasty or has a vulnerability, it'll still be nasty...
  10. [SOLVED] Re: How secure is Ubuntu compared to other operating systems?

    This gives a nice high-level overview of the security features present
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features
  11. [ubuntu] Re: Microsoft Visio: Any counter Linux applications?

    Never used Visio (not even sure what it does)
    but LibreOffice 3.5 boasts the new ability to open and save Visio files
    So I guess LibreOffice can do what Visio does?
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    [SOLVED] Re: Ubuntu "based on Debian" newbie question

    http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uploads/12.01/gldt1201.png
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    [other] Re: bash script for interacting with gromacs

    no problem

    Though, just be comfortable in your own mind exactly what that '0' is doing

    Will it always be a '0'
    or is there a case where it needs to be a different number
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    [other] Re: bash script for interacting with gromacs

    What is this '0' you have to type in?
    is it some extra variable that the program needs?

    You could try just piping a '0' in, see if that works


    #!/bin/bash
    echo "0" | trjconv -f md_test.xtc...
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    [other] Re: bash script for interacting with gromacs

    Don't know what gromacs is, or what it does
    but it sounds like it's an interactive CLI program similar to the FTP or MySQL CLI programs
    If so, you should be able to feed it an arbitrary list of...
  16. Re: What would you recommend to do to get experienced using Ubuntu?

    Depends if you really want to get experienced using Ubuntu or using Linux

    Replace "using ubuntu" with "driving a Ford"
    Driving is more than getting to grips with a single manufacturer's model
    ...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu 11.10 won't finish downloading

    Assuming your netbook is 32bit
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    [SOLVED] Re: Where to post critique?

    It's worth noting as well that a lot of the Canonical and community developers don't really visit this forum*

    If you want to talk to the developers directly, you're better off on the mailing lists...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu 11.10 won't finish downloading

    You could try bittorrent
    http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/alternative-download#bt
  20. Re: What are the differences between Ubuntu, Fedora, Scientific Linux etc Operating S

    Think of them like different car makes & models
    A car is, broadly speaking, the same as any other car in their basic operation
    But there are differences between the different makes & models - these...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Defragment hard drive

    Under normal circumstances, you should never need to de-fragment a Linux EXT partition

    See here for a nice explanation of why...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Cron bash script using ifconfig wont display

    ifconfig is in /sbin/
    By default, cron's path doesn't include /sbin

    Use the full path to ifconfig


    #!/bin/bash


    # Email variables for Sendemail
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    Re: SHA hashing program

    Just FYI
    echoing stuff into a hashing program takes care

    echo by default adds a newline character to the end of the string
    use the -n switch to turn off the trailing newline


    echo -n "some...
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    [ubuntu] Re: How to use dd to copy DVD

    Assuming your DVD device (input file) is /dev/sr0
    and your output file is /home/username/dvd.iso

    dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/home/username/dvd.iso

    Just FYI
    dd (data dump) will just copy something...
  25. [ubuntu] Re: Samba keeps prompting me for user name and password

    in the samba config file, change

    security = userto
    security = share

    Default config requires clients are setup with accounts on the server (user-level security)
    This changes it to allow...
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