On a Windows box I reach for a Linux shell first — not because Windows tooling is broken, but because the Unix-style command line gives me the fastest, most portable path from idea to execution. That preference, which many readers will recognize from long years of using bash, zsh, or other...
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Hi there, my computer won’t turn on and I’d appreciate some help. My computer will not turn on outside of a black screen with “minimal BASH-like line editing supported.”
I am not very technical, but I did as follows (per a YouTube video):
grub> ls
(hd0) (hd0,gpt4) (hd0,gpt3) (hd0,gpt2)...
bash
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Hi,
I installed openSSH for Windows and the Linux subsystem on my computer and I would like to access the Linux bash from another computer. When I use ssh to access the computer I get the Windows command prompt then when I type bash I get
Error: 0x80070005
Press any key to continue...
It seems...
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Hi,
I want to automatic update Properties for a Windows shortcut from a Bash script.
Especially values in Target and Start in. Typically update from e.g. 'Open Office 4' to 'Open Office 5' for those.
Any idea?
Thanks!
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Original release date: September 25, 2014
Systems Affected
GNU Bash through 4.3.
Linux, BSD, and UNIX distributions including but not limited to:
CentOS 5 through 7
Debian
Mac OS X
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 through 7
Link Removed 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS, and 14.04 LTS
Overview
A critical...
Hello all, I am attempting to dual boot windows 8 and a linux distro and I fear I may have obfuscated a hdd partition. I ran a bash to find out how my drive partitions are looking:
Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012]
============================= Boot Info Summary...
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I would like to use Cygwin to run a Perl program, so I downloaded Cygwin. I installed the packages under "Cur" (the current stable release). My problem is that whenever I try to start Cygwin bash shell it just appears for a second then exits immediately. I don't know what the...