Linux
LINUX QUESTIONS MUST BE PROGRAMMING RELATED. Use this tag only if your question relates to programming using Linux APIs or Linux-specific behavior, not just because you happen to run your code on Linux. If you need Linux support you can try https://unix.stackexchange.com or https://askubuntu.com
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What are the calling conventions for UNIX & Linux system calls (and user-space functions) on i386 and x86-64
Following links explain x86-32 system call conventions for both UNIX (BSD flavor) & Linux: http://www.int
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Can you run GUI applications in a Linux Docker container?
How can you run GUI applications in a Linux Docker container? Are there any images that set up vncserver or so
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Docker can't connect to docker daemon
After I update my Docker version to 0.8.0, I get an error message while entering sudo docker version: Client
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What is the runtime performance cost of a Docker container?
I'd like to comprehensively understand the run-time performance cost of a Docker container. I've fou
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Argument list too long error for rm, cp, mv commands
I have several hundred PDFs under a directory in UNIX. The names of the PDFs are really long (approx. 60 chars
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How do SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT differ?
The man pages and programmer documentations for the socket options SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT are different
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How to force cp to overwrite without confirmation
I'm trying to use the cp command and force an overwrite. I have tried cp -rf /foo/* /bar, but I am still
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How does "cat << EOF" work in bash?
I needed to write a script to enter multi-line input to a program (psql). After a bit of googling, I found th
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Convert DOS line endings to Linux line endings in Vim
If I open files I created in Windows, the lines all end with ^M. How do I delete these characters all at once?
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How can I measure the actual memory usage of an application or process?
How do you measure the memory usage of an application or process in Linux? From the blog article of Understand
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Redirect all output to file in Bash
I know that in Linux, to redirect output from the screen to a file, I can either use the > or tee. How
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Exploring Docker container's file system
I've noticed with docker that I need to understand what's happening inside a container or what files
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How can I exclude directories from grep -R?
I want to traverse all subdirectories, except the "node_modules" directory.
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How to get full path of a file?
Is there an easy way I can print the full path of file.txt ? file.txt = /nfs/an/disks/jj/home/dir/file.txt
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Recursively counting files in a Linux directory
How can I recursively count files in a Linux directory? I found this: find DIR_NAME -type f ¦ wc -l But w
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Using ls to list directories and their total sizes
Is it possible to use ls in Unix to list the total size of a sub-directory and all its contents as opposed to
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What is the meaning of "POSIX"?
What is POSIX? I have read the Wikipedia article and I read it every time I encounter the term. The fact is th
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How to kill a process running on particular port in Linux?
I tried to close the tomcat using ./shutdown.sh from tomcat /bin directory. But found that the server was not
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Pipe to/from the clipboard in a Bash script
Is it possible to pipe to/from the clipboard in Bash? Whether it is piping to/from a device handle or using an
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Remove a symlink to a directory
I have a symlink to an important directory. I want to get rid of that symlink, while keeping the directory beh
