Many times on this site we drop to command line to get something done. Guess that in some cases is easier than selecting, menu, control panel, updates etc especially as not every version of linux interface gui has that option in that place. So things like sudo apt-get update etc. I use mint debian…

Hello Paul Due Java programming working with STS4, Maven and Gradle. I did do some scripts to work with Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian. So far no problems about portability. But yes, exists difference(s) about behavior. So far I remember a difference about creation of users between Ubuntu and Fedora. I…

[image] Manuel Jordan: About scripts: of course, it requires a good amount of time to write and test for “refactoring”. It does indeed. You seem to be writing scripts that involve filesystem parameters like acl. That will vary if distros use different filesysyems. I have some portability …

Hello Neville It does indeed. You seem to be writing scripts that involve filesystem parameters like acl. That will vary if distros use different filesysyems. About the scripts yes mostly about the mkdir and chmod commands. It applies for groups too (secondary groups) About “ACL” was not applie…

[image] Manuel Jordan: I remember clearly the list was different between macOS and Ubuntu. MacOS has the BSD core utilities. Ubuntu has the GNU core utilities. They are different. See my Chimera… topic, it is discussed there.

MacOS has the BSD core utilities. Ubuntu has the GNU core utilities. Yes, something important to be take it in consideration [image] Neville Jackson: They are different. See my Chimera… topic, it is discussed there. Some specific link was forgotten to be share?

[image] Manuel Jordan: How to do a ping in the same LAN through GUI? I don’t use or need to ping anything, must be 2 years at least since I tried, and that was just to get to a router that was playing up , but that I did through the browser line in google chrome 192.168.1.1, now the company o…

[image] Neville Jackson: I have some portability issues with scripts between bsd and linux… but I usually only write very simple scripts, so it is not a bother. Same here - I have a few scripts I run on either FreeBSD (TrueNAS) or MacOS or Linux… For those ones I use a case statement… e.g. …