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    Favorite Terminal Emulator?

    Thank you very much for sharing i might look into some of these programs. :)
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    Enabling Root Account in Ubuntu

    Alright lets hear a dumb story. So i started learning python a while ago cause i wanted to automate something. BUT i may have installed python2 instead of 3 and then i messed up with pip pip3 and python -m pip. This led to me having a great idea to just run the best command with sudo and -rf and...
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    Enabling Root Account in Ubuntu

    Just want to say a dumb thing i did recently out loud. I used a command you should never do but sudo rm / -rf *python* And then terminal would not even open and i had to use a usb to reboot. Please dont ask why i did that
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    Kali Linux Revealed - free ebook

    I am using Kali right now and its almost the exact same thing as ubuntu as they are both based off the same thing. The only difference is the cool wallpaper and the tools that it comes with. The thing is if you dont know anything theirs a million tools and you dont know what to do with them. The...
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    Favorite Terminal Emulator?

    So i think the title says it all. I want to start using a new terminal in order to be more efficient as i end up opening too many terminals and its kinda slow too. I was thinking about various ones like tmux terminator guake and a few others. I was wondering if you guys can recommend any of...
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    Question about bash scripting

    Thank you very much that URL was just what i was looking for. The examples were very good Yeah sorry about that ill try to explain my questions better hence the apologies.
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    Question about bash scripting

    Sorry with the very late reply, I'm cramming for finals now, but i think we are talking about different script parameters. The one that im talking about is more able scripting and examples include $1 and $2. My question was about how it works in a bash script and not really the program type.
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    Question about bash scripting

    So after a long break from linux i stated looking at scripts in bash and i got a question about it. What in the world is a script parameter? I have basic coding ideas cause i did snap coding in computer science at school but what in the world is a script parameter?
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    Question about ls command and locate

    Helped a lot i looking into the find command and it seems like its way better for certain situations than ls and locate.
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    Question about ls command and locate

    Thanks a bunch that made lots of sense. So ls can only search in current directory and locate can find anything anywhere. BTW the is definitely the most wholesome and beginner friendly community i have seen, other places love making fun of noobs . Ehem looking at you discord
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    Question about ls command and locate

    /home/ex4722
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    Question about ls command and locate

    Question about that command- did this list all the files with .doc or did it locate the relative path of one of the few .docs. Why does your cd command list 3 directories when cd only changes your current one?
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    Question about ls command and locate

    So this confused me a lot cause if i use the locate *.doc instead of ls it list all the .docs i have in the directory. I added a screenshot to show whats happening
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    Question about ls command and locate

    Thank you guys for your answers but i think i didn't explain my problem correctly in my first post. Im suing a Ubuntu btw. Here the thing im following the edx course and it says to type ls *.doc to find all docs in this current directory but for some reason i get the result " ls: cannot access...
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    Question about ls command and locate

    I type in ls *.doc to find all docs in my directory but somehow it says cannot access *.doc: no such file or directory. Im trying to use the locate command and somehow its not working for me. Does anyone know why its not working for me, im following a gudie and somehow its working for them...
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