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perfectionist needs help with ${//} substitution 5 53 (3/17/2012 1:27:02 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi Guys, Okay, I know I am being a perfectionist here, but this keeps bugging me. How do I do the following ${//} substitution with a single statement, instead of two? Before: My\x20Screwball\x20Label After:... Todd

need to add backslashes with sed 6 107 (2/11/2012 2:06:27 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, I need two back slashes added to the a string: This works if I run it from the command line: $ FileName="z:\home\todd\abc.lpw" $ echo $FileName | sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/g' z:\\home\\todd\\ab... Todd

backup/clone NTFS partition? 4 159 (2/10/2012 11:31:45 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, I am designing a new system for a customer. It is a Windows POS system running Windows 2000. I will be upgrading it to XP. It currently has a 20 GB NTFS hard drive. (It is really, really old: Penti... Todd

How can I get a plain text directory with wget? 13 88 (2/6/2012 3:18:08 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, Not having much luck with the man page. I use the following piece of code in a bash script to give me a directory listing: wget --quiet http://$FtpSite$FtpDir -O - > $Tmp 2>&1 The value pumped i... Todd

How do you use the "at" command? 49 90 (1/27/2012 6:16:30 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, Maybe I am a bit dense here, but the man page for "at" is more than a bit confusing to me. What I want to do is run the follow two commands as root at a specific time: su root -c "tou... Todd

Why are mkisofs ISO's so large? 44 73 (1/8/2012 4:15:11 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, Why does mkisofs --dvd-video -o $Path/clean_dvd.iso $StruPath/$Label create such large ISOs? 6.2 GB vs 4.4 gb when I use a GUI utility to create the iso. Did I miss some compression setting? W... Todd

need monospace font in zenity 2 127 (12/31/2011 4:16:27 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, I am using Scientific Linux 6.2 x64 (RHEL clone): $ zenity --info --title="abc" --font "monospace 9" --text "abcdefg" This option is not available. Please see --help for all possible usages. $ zenit... Todd

need to wipe a disk 36 65 (12/28/2011 6:09:15 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, I have a disk with personal information on it that I need to wipe. Is there some cleaver way of using "dd" to write the alphabet across it? Any better ideas? (One pass is fine.) Many thanks, -T ... Todd

Trying to burn an iso to DVD 4 83 (12/6/2011 11:54:00 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, I am trying to burn an ISO to a DVD. What am I doing wrong here? # growisofs -dvd-compat -allow-limited-size -Z \ /dev/sr0=SL-61-x86_64-2011-07-27-Everything-DVD1.iso g... Todd

How can I set default sound card? 8 59 (12/5/2011 6:52:28 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, I have two sound cards: $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xfb9d8000 irq 33 1 [NVidia ]: HDA-In... Todd

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Why are mkisofs ISO's so large? 44 73 (1/8/2012 4:15:11 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, Why does mkisofs --dvd-video -o $Path/clean_dvd.iso $StruPath/$Label create such large ISOs? 6.2 GB vs 4.4 gb when I use a GUI utility to create the iso. Did I miss some compression setting? W... Todd3275 (76)

How do you use the "at" command? 49 90 (1/27/2012 6:16:30 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, Maybe I am a bit dense here, but the man page for "at" is more than a bit confusing to me. What I want to do is run the follow two commands as root at a specific time: su root -c "tou... Todd3275 (76)

How can I get a plain text directory with wget? 13 88 (2/6/2012 3:18:08 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, Not having much luck with the man page. I use the following piece of code in a bash script to give me a directory listing: wget --quiet http://$FtpSite$FtpDir -O - > $Tmp 2>&1 The value pumped i... Todd3275 (76)

backup/clone NTFS partition? 4 159 (2/10/2012 11:31:45 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, I am designing a new system for a customer. It is a Windows POS system running Windows 2000. I will be upgrading it to XP. It currently has a 20 GB NTFS hard drive. (It is really, really old: Penti... Todd3275 (76)

need to add backslashes with sed 6 107 (2/11/2012 2:06:27 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, I need two back slashes added to the a string: This works if I run it from the command line: $ FileName="z:\home\todd\abc.lpw" $ echo $FileName | sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/g' z:\\home\\todd\\ab... Todd3275 (76)

XMING and Redhat 2 100 (2/25/2012 1:03:47 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I have a headless linux VM I need to administer. It is CENTOS (Redhat recompile). I can run gnome-session and get a remote GUI session, but the menu bar at the top is missing, or at least not visible on my ... jc2402 (4)

3ware raid card 6 105 (2/27/2012 8:30:10 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hello, We have a machine with 3ware 9500S-12MI raid cards. The problem is that if I pull a disk off of this controller and use somewhere else, the disk seems unusable. It gives a tremendous amount of read err... vilmos2 (252)

how to unzip a zip file? 11 128 (3/15/2012 7:27:24 PM) comp.os.linux.misc We are using Red Hat Linux. "zip" command is available. So this command will create test.zip file containing a.txt and b.txt: zip test.zip a.txt b.txt The problem is if I want to unzip test.zip, I don't know ... xsli2 (76)

perfectionist needs help with ${//} substitution 5 53 (3/17/2012 1:27:02 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi Guys, Okay, I know I am being a perfectionist here, but this keeps bugging me. How do I do the following ${//} substitution with a single statement, instead of two? Before: My\x20Screwball\x20Label After:... Todd3275 (76)

Root password #4 74 77 (3/19/2012 11:45:37 AM) comp.os.linux.misc I'm using Ubuntu 11.10. I tried booting into maintenance mode, in order to install a new nvidia driver, but it wouldn't accept the root password. I can happily do 'su root' from an X terminal and the passwor... richardkimber (46)