Restore a crontab from a backup by giving the saved file to crontab. That replaces the selected user’s current schedule, so save what is installed before you make the change. Know what the restore command changes A user crontab is the schedule that cron runs for one account. The crontab program installs, lists, or removes
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mpv themes work best when you start with the files mpv already reads. Put lasting playback choices in mpv.conf, key bindings in input.conf, and optional Lua scripts in the scripts directory, then change one behavior at a time. Install mpv and confirm the build Install mpv from your distribution repository before creating a configuration directory.
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Download the current Android SDK Platform-Tools archive when you need adb and fastboot on Linux without installing the full Android Studio IDE. Google publishes the archive for Linux, and it contains the command-line tools that talk to an Android device. Use this path when you need a stable folder for device debugging, sideloading, log capture,
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Since Ubuntu 24.04, the developers at Canonical have replaced the stock GNOME Software Center with its own ‘App Center’. This would not have been a bad thing if the developers had fully integrated every feature of the GNOME software Center in their App store, instead the developers shipped a half-baked app store on the most
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Every Fedora update leaves at least one old Linux kernel behind, and DNF keeps three installed by default unless you tell it otherwise. That is normally fine, since a spare kernel gives you a way back if a new one breaks Wi-Fi or graphics. But once storage runs low or the GRUB menu gets cluttered,
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ASCII art on Linux covers more ground than most guides let on: converting your own photos into terminal-friendly art, pulling up the Arch logo next to your system stats, or grabbing a ready-made logo to paste into a README. This guide walks through ascii-image-converter, the tool most people reach for first, then rounds up the
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You can ask Telnet to connect to towel.blinkenlights.nl and, when the service is delivering its animation, watch the ASCII version of Star Wars in a terminal. It is a network connection to a public server, so the remote host decides whether the film stream stays available. Connect to the ASCII Star Wars service Run the
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Two commands answer almost every storage question on a Linux box. lsblk shows the shape of your storage: which disks exist, how they are partitioned, and where each partition is mounted. blkid reads the filesystem metadata itself and prints the UUID, label, and filesystem type you need when editing /etc/fstab or writing udev rules. The
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Two commands cover most checksum and encoding work on Linux: md5sum produces a fixed fingerprint of a file, and base64 converts data into plain ASCII text so it can travel through channels that only accept text. They look similar in a terminal but do opposite jobs. The sections below show the difference through hashes, verified
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You run ls, scan a crowded directory, and still cannot tell which file changed most recently. The ls -ltr command solves that in four characters of flags: it prints full details for every entry and sorts them so the oldest file sits at the top and the newest sits at the bottom, right above your
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