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Your command line does not have character '(' but the error message has. Sounds like you are not telling something."cp -r foo bar" should definitely work, although I... [by jlehtone]

Hi,

How can I make radiolist dialog which content so many options what is the value of the variable?

Quote:

echo "How many options?" read=VAR

dialog --title "sdf" --backtitle "sdff" --radiolist "ffdsfsd" 15 60 5 "1" "first" on "2" "second" off "3" "third" off "4"

"CSF" rings no bell.Try command "iptables -S" as root in terminal. When I do it, I get:# iptables -S -P INPUT ACCEPT -P FO... [by jlehtone]

Followed the instruction in the fedoraproject.org wiki "How_to_debug_sound_problems" page. Ended up in the "Model parameters" section as none of the other steps had worked.

Used the command line "sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf" to create an empty config file, and added the line "options snd_hda_intel model=acer-aspire-4930g", saved and rebooted.

I'm trying to create dsdt in 11.10. when i run the following command I get the error message "no match at -e line blahblahblah"

mkdir ACPI && dmesg | perl -we '$n=0; while (<>) { if (($t,$a,$l,$o) = (/^[^a-zA-Z]*ACPI: ([-._A-Z0-9]{4,4}) +([0-9A-F]{8,8}), ([0-9A-F]{4,4})+(?:\s*\(([^)]+))?/)) { $o && $o=~s/[^-._a-zA-Z0-9]+/-/g; ($cmd="acpidump -a $a -l $l &gt

Since my laptop is often (dis)connected from the dock to which an Apple Keyboard is attached, I am looking for a convenient way to trigger some changes in keyboard layout through from the command line / script.

The effect I want to achieve is the same as going to System Settings -> Keyboard Layout -> Options ...

For some reason I can't get my F17 upgraded using Yum.

Using command line: yum update --releasever=18 results in a dependency error with libxxxxx.so.2, and yum suggests I use "rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest" and/or "--skip-broken" to get past this.

I ran the rpm command, but didn't see any feedback (just returned to a command line), so I ran the yum command again with --sk

Hi All,

I am newbie to linux. Can somebody help me with following requirement.

I have one huge line.

Hello All,

I have an Expect script that ssh's to a remote server and runs some commands before exiting. One of the commands I run is the "hostname" Command. After I run this command I save the output using this line in the code below...

Basically it executes the hostname command, then I loop through the "$expect_out(buffer)" variable line by line.