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How to use the 'date' command to display week number of the year?
There are two kinds of week:
Monday as first day
Sunday as first day
So its not all the same when you are in different day of a week(CentOS7):
[[email protected]:~]# date
Mon Aug 26 18:02:47 CST ...
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How to use the 'date' command to display week number of the year?
There are actually 3 kind of week number in year for the date command :
%U week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
%W week number of year, with Monday as first day of ...
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How can I tell what version of Linux I'm using?
There are a ton of answers but I'm looking for more generic. AFAI am concerned the following works on most of systems.
cat /etc/os-release
Example output:
sh-4.4$ cat /etc/os-release ...
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Get the hardware model name in linux
Reading the source code of Neofetch made the confusion clear. Line 1174 for Neofetch version 7.0.0 has a condition check:
if [[ -d /system/app/ && -d /system/priv-app ]]; then
model="$(...
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How to find hardware/chipset name using terminal in Linux
Your particular chipset’s PCI id is shared by the four variants in the family, and distinguishing between them involves looking at the capability identifier in the PCI configuration registers. Section ...
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How to change OEM vendor info?
BIOS writers provide tools to update the DMI information, without needing to modify BIOS images, to companies which manufacture devices using those BIOSs. For example, AMI has a AMIDEDOS tool under ...
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Format the output of commands
This can be achieved by adding echo "" in the middle of the commands where the space is required.
Here are some example.
Adding new line in the middle.
Example:
df | fgrep '/dev/'; echo ""; free ...
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How can I tell what version of Linux I'm using?
To combine some ideas here:
cat /etc/*_version /etc/*-release && uname -a
Should get you want you need on any distribution.
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Zsh do utilities distinction
When a word appears in a command position, the first thing that zsh checks is if it's an alias or a reserved word. This happens early on, as part of grammatical parsing. Zsh knows about reserved words ...
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Get the hardware model name in linux
There is no a portable, reliable, generic method to retrieve hardware
model name in Linux. Let me describe 2 different cases: ARM-based
Raspberry Pi with Raspbian installed and MIPS-based TP-LINK ...
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How do I check the running kernel version?
For Ubuntu
enter the command
# uname -r
will Print the kernel name
# uname -a
Will Print all Information
or else we can check with cat /proc/version
For Redhat and centos
# cat /etc/redhat-...
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How do I find out the build version to download with LEDE?
That information can be found in /etc/openwrt_release under DISTRIB_TARGET
DISTRIB_ID='LEDE'
DISTRIB_RELEASE='17.01.2'
DISTRIB_REVISION='r3435-65eec8bd5f'
DISTRIB_CODENAME='reboot'
DISTRIB_TARGET='...
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How can I tell what version of Linux I'm using?
inxi is a System Information Tool for Linux. It displays handy information concerning system hardware (hard disk, sound cards, graphic card, network cards, CPU, RAM, and more), together with system ...
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Is there a way to clearly define hardware controller?
You can do that both ways, from devices names as they are now standardized or detecting them from dmidecode or lshw command
also cat /proc/mdstat
also lspci -knn | grep 'RAID bus controller'
or lshw -...
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Windows Command Prompts 'systeminfo' command equivalent on Ubuntu
I'm not using Windows, so I'm not sure what can systeminfo do, but here are few commands based on screenshots I googled.
Basic system information: hostnamectl
$ hostnamectl
Static hostname: vtrefny-...
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Windows Command Prompts 'systeminfo' command equivalent on Ubuntu
Try inxi:
$ inxi
CPU: 6-Core Intel Core i7-8700K (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 800/800/4700 MHz
Kernel: 5.4.0-52-generic x86_64 Up: 7h 17m Mem: 12886.2/32061.5 MiB (40.2%)
Storage: 6.37 TiB (35.2% used) ...
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How to use the 'date' command to display week number of the year?
don't mess calendar week/year with ISO week/ISO year!
e.g. the solution
echo "So this is week `date +%V` of `date +%Y`."
is not correct!, because for example for 1.1.2023 it will return ...
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Making a "About PC" boot opion in GRUB 2
It depends. Are you skilled in any programming language?
Frankly, figuring out things like total number of packages installed and the version of your shell would be hard to find out within GRUB. Since ...
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get connected monitor(s) details on a Debian system
try hwinfo (possibly not installed by default -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install hwinfo
then:
# hwinfo --monitor
20: None 00.0: 10002 LCD Monitor
[Created ...
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How to use the 'date' command to display week number of the year?
I'd like to add the command substitution using backquotes (``) like this:
echo "So this is week `date +%V` of `date +%Y`."
They are evaluated before the expression is processed further and ...
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How do I check the running kernel version?
dmesg | grep Linux
This command reads boot logs as it startup.
Output:
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.9.0-8-amd64
([email protected]) (gcc version 6.3.0 20170516 (Debian
6.3.0-18+...
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How can I tell what version of Linux I'm using?
A problem I found with the practical uname-a is that, in microsoft's wsl, it always returns something like (even inside docker containers!):
Linux d0b341b1f694 5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP ...
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How can I tell what version of Linux I'm using?
whatami by Remy Evard at Argonne National Lab. Install and run using these commands:
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-mpi/mtt/master/client/whatami/whatami && chmod a+x whatami
...
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Getting information on a machine's hardware in Linux
HW Probe — is an option to list all your hardware devices and make diagnostics of operability. It's based on hwinfo, lspci, lsusb, dmidecode and other tools.
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