How to iterate all files and directories under a directory in Python? For example, I would like to iterate each file and directory under /mnt/data/ /mnt/data/ |– file.txt `– great That is: /mnt/data/files.txt /mnt/data/great You can use the os.walk to do this: root, dirs, files = os.walk(path).next() root will be the path.dirs will contain the
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How to force ssh client to authenticate using password on Linux?
Posted onssh client can use many authentication methods like password, keys. On a server, I set password-less log in with private/public key. Now, I want to try whether the new password is set correctly by log on using ssh. By default, the key-based authentication method is used again. How to force ssh client to authenticate using
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How to detect whether Linux runs in UEFI or BIOS mode inside the Linux?
Posted onHow to detect whether Linux runs in UEFI or BIOS mode inside the Linux itself without needed to boot the the management console of the mother board? You can detect whether Linux runs in EFI mode by checking whether /sys/firmware/efi exist. In bash, you can test by [ -d /sys/firmware/efi/ ] This technique is used
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How to force a USB 3.0 port to work in USB 2.0 mode in Linux?
Posted onWe know that we can disable USB 3.0 in the BIOS. But is there a way to force a USB 3.0 port to work in USB 2.0 mode inside of a running Linux? On Linux on some platforms booted in BIOS modes, you can use the following command to force USB 2.0 modes for your
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How to make “tree” output consistent on Linux
Posted onI tried tree on different Linux boxes to verify the files by diff. However, I found the format can be a little bit different on different nodes. For examples, the tree result could be . |– test2 | |– test4 | `– test5 `– test3 1 directory, 3 files or . ├── test2 │ ├──
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How to open the preferences dialog in Gthumb 3.4 on Linux?
Posted onHow to open the preferences dialog in Gthumb 3.4 on Linux? There seems no options to open the dialog in the menu on the toolbar. It is in the application menu of gthumb under Gnome 3. Click gthumb application icon on the top left side of you desktop and in the menu you can find
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How to advertise different gateway ip via DHCP in OpenWRT?
Posted onHow to advertise a different router/gateway ip via DHCP in OpenWRT? In general, you need to configure the DHCP option with code 3 (router). (A list of all options can be found in http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/bootp/options.htm ) For example, to advise the gateway IP 192.168.1.2, you will send this option: “3,192.168.1.2” Now, for OpenWRT, you have 2
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How to export Google Chrome password on Linux?
Posted onHow to export my Google Chrome password on Linux to a human-readable text file? In newer versions of Chrome, the passwords are stored using the encrypted password storage provided by the system, either Gnome Keyring or KWallet. We need to force Chrome to use a temporary profile folder with unencrypted password storage. Step 1. Connect
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How to find out the MX record for a domain on Linux?
Posted onHow to find out a domain’s MX record for Email on Linux? For example, to find which domain/IP the email to gmail.com is delivered to. You may make use of the host command. The -t option is used to select the query type. type can be any recognized query type: CNAME, NS, SOA, SIG, KEY,
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How to allow websites’ .htaccess files in Apache2?
Posted onHow to allow websites to use .htaccess files in Apache2 web servers? The AllowOverride directive controls this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#allowoverride To allow AllowOverride in a directory, add the following rules to the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf or similar configuration file for your apache installation: <Directory “/var/www/www.example.com”> Options FollowSymLinks # # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
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How to force umount a NFS directory on Linux?
Posted onThe NFS server is down. It is reported “Stale NFS file handle”. I tried ‘umount’ and ‘umount -f’. But neither succeeded. # umount /mnt/store umount.nfs: /mnt/store: Stale NFS file handle # umount -f /mnt/store umount.nfs: /mnt/store: Stale NFS file handle How to force umounting the NFS without rebooting the Linux server? I usually have to
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How to redirect anything written on a file to another file in linux?
Posted onSuppose we have two files, a.txt and b.txt . If we write anything in a.txt & b.txt, it should be redirected to c.txt. tee may help for this purpose. tee: duplicate standard input You may try a command like this: echo “hello” | tee -a a.txt >>b.txt Both a.txt and b.txt will contain the “hello”.
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How to run firefox under different profiles simultaniusly?
Posted onFirefox has multiple profiles and I am aware of choosing them by invoking firefox with the -P option. But I find that after one firefox instance under one profile is running, even I choose another profile during starting with -P, the new instance is still running under the existing profile. How to run firefox with
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How to wrap long lines in a text file on Linux?
Posted onI have some text files which contain some long lines. Now I would like to break lines to at most 80 characters. How to wrap long lines in a text file on Linux? The fold command can wrap lines. fold – wrap each input line to fit in specified width For your purpose, fold -w
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How to merge 2 .a libraries to one .a library on Linux?
Posted onWe have 2 static .a libraries and we would like to merge them into a single one for easier usage. How to merge 2 .a libraries to one .a library on Linux? With GNU ar, you can specify the single command-line option -M and control it with a script supplied via standard input, like the
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How to Passwordless SSH to an OpenWrt Router?
Posted onThe good ssh-copy-id method which works well on common Linux seems not working for OpenWrt router. How to Passwordless SSH to an OpenWrt Router? OpenWrt’s SSH server is Dropbear. It can accept normal RSA keys. But the authorized_keys location is not the same as the openssh “~/.ssh/authorized_keys”. The location for the authorized_keys is /etc/dropbear/authorized_keys What
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How to make Fedora Linux not clean some files in /tmp/?
Posted onOn my Fedora 20, I find that the system automatically clean up file under /tmp/. This is convenient. However, it cause some problems for some programs. For example, HDFS puts its DataNode pid file under /tmp/ by default like hadoop-hadoop-datanode.pid. After it is cleaned up, the hadoop-daemon.sh script will consider there is no DataNode running.
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How to configure systemd to boot Linux to console mode (runlevel 3)?
Posted onHow to configure Linux (am using Fedora 21) managed by systemd to boot to console (init 3) mode? systemd has the concept of targets as a more flexible replacement for runlevels in sysvinit. Runlevel 3 is emulated by multi-user.target. runlevel3.target is a symbolic link to multi-user.target. You can switch to ‘runlevel 3’ by running #
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How to deactivate a LVM logical volume on Linux?
Posted onHow to deactivate a LVM logical volume activated by #vgchange -aay on Linux You may need to make a LVM volume group inactive and thus unknown to the kernel. To deactivate a volume group, use the -a (–activate) argument of the vgchange command. To deactivates the volume group vg, use this command # vgchange -a
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What’s wrong with the messages like “UnrecovData 10B8B BadCRC” and “failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED” on Linux?
Posted onI keep seeing messages in dmesg as follows with “exception Emask 0x10” -> “SError: { UnrecovData 10B8B BadCRC }” -> “failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED” -> “hard resetting link”: [ 7395.936692] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0xe000 SErr 0x280100 action 0x6 frozen [ 7395.936701] ata4.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error [ 7395.936703] ata4: SError: {
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