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Linux kernel: Get status of bound, but otherwise unused sockets

I have a problem with the Linux kernel, regarding the status of ports that are bound through an application, but not used via listen() or connect().  E.g., Entering the following lines in a python ...
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Making a "About PC" boot opion in GRUB 2

How could i make a boot option "About PC" in the GRUB boot menu that displays something like in the image running the newest version of GRUB i386-pc MBR everything uptodate. Image slightly ...
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Zsh do utilities distinction

How do Zsh distinguish utility/file if it's executable either binary or script, or just file, or shell builtin, etc, etc ?
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get connected monitor(s) details on a Debian system

I am running Debian 11 with GNOME, and realized that getting information about the connected monitor(s) is not that easy (preferably from terminal). The most promising solution I found was with read-...
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Is there a way to clearly define hardware controller?

Background There's a task to automate info grabbing from servers. However, I am unable to locate any hardware or software RAID controllers. Issue Due to the various ways each vendor describes its ...
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Windows Command Prompts 'systeminfo' command equivalent on Ubuntu

With Windows' command prompt, I can get a simplified system hardware overview through systeminfo command. On Ubuntu I can get a lot of non GUI commands with lots of info plus verbose details. There ...
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Get the hardware model name in linux

I am writing an application that works like Neofetch when a -w option is passed. It shows some of the the system information like memory, swap, cpu, battery usages, hostname, local ip, kernel version ...
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How to find hardware/chipset name using terminal in Linux

How can I reliably determine the chipset of a machine?  I tried to use the lspci, hwinfo, lshw and dmidecode commands on my old Asus K50IJ with Linux Mint, but the output does not provide precise ...
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How to change OEM vendor info?

Running: cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/{sys_vendor,chassis_vendor,product_name} produces the output: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M. How would I change these ...
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Format the output of commands

I am currently trying to use Plink to run a few commands on a linux server to monitor a couple of things on it such as the disk space, memory, cpu usage. I have the commands that I want to use but I ...
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How do I find out the build version to download with LEDE?

Following on the footsteps of this question, which I was able to figure out with the device page for my device. I want to know if it is possible to find out he build information without using the web ...
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What is the command to list specific hardware components? [duplicate]

I'm wondering what command I can use to see all the hardware in any PC, or at least some of it (for example, model of the motherboard). I'm pretty new on Linux, I'm using a lightweight version to boot ...
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Unique Deliminator when semicolon replaced with comma in CSV files of Unix environments?

Azure Machine Learning insists me to use comma as deliminator in CSV files, instead of semicolon. This breaks a lot of things in *ix computers where we use semicolon and cell values have a lot of ...
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Is there information such as Operation Mode (Booting Mode) in the device tree?

Good morning. I am studying Device Tree of Kernel. I use an ARM board. According to the information of Operation Mode(Booting Mode) Register, the device medium used for booting the ARM board is set ...
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How to fingerprint a Unix System [closed]

I would like to fingerprint some Unix (most are Debian) systems. By fingerprinting I mean run a script that collect material identifiers, system version, etc in order to be able to: accurately ...
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