What is /sbin on a linux, unix operating system

-

What's the sbin directory on a Linux computer system ,

An /sbin directory is a sub directory of root directory, sbin is an abbreviation of system bin.

It's used used by the operating system to store and lookup essential system specific binary programs
ie ip, mkfs.*

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

FlappingBird Postmortem (JS13K)

-
Image
FlappingBird was my Primary entry for JS13K Games competition 2020 It's about a bird flying in a forest of trees (Some of which are upside down) It started out as i was trying to draw some clouds for fun, then later i added every missing component to complete the sky First day. I planned making a game that should as well serve as a 404 page with a hidden game such that when a button is pressed It transitions into gameplay qualities were that it should be easy to play by everybody without need to master many rules Second day. There was a bunch of game ideas up my sleeves one of them was a game where a typical 404 page transitions into a green garden like mine sweeper version made up of a flowering mine field with smooth sweet sound effects Fourth day. We'll Since Mine sweeper is not a very common game there's nothing fun about it and not everyone knows how it's played. So i gave up on it and on this day i started working on backgrounds for flappingBird "the final...
Read more

How to train a tfjs model to play breakout game

-
Description This is an artificial intelligence mechine learning practical experiment documentary on training an artificial intelligence neural network to play breakout game in the browser powered by tensorflow tfjs for JavaScript. Introduction To understand how things will work breakout is a game which is alot more like ping pong your objective is to make sure the ball never goes by the puck in other words the player's puck should hit the ball before it heads into the lower bond of the screen. Second objective   Second objective is to make the ball destroy blocks by projecting it into the disired direction. Normally this is not very important because the ball would normally iterate each and every corner on its own without trouble Persudo  code below is how this system works // start initialization // create model // end initialization // start update loop async predict(should i move left or right). On resolve {set linear velocity} if(ball crashed) {diagnose ...
Read more

How to wait for a promise within a loop block

-
JavaScript promises enable developers to write asynchronous applications in JavaScript Loops are ways of iterating elements For instance doing an asynchronous task within a for loop can be done as follows; Note that lag is used to emulate some delay. const items = [1, 2, 3, 4] const lag = async (delay) => {     return new Promise((resolve) =>         setTimeout(() => res(`${delay / 1000} sec`), delay)) } items.forEach(async (item) => {     const seconds = await lag(1000 * item)     console.log(seconds) }) expected output 1 sec 2 sec 3 sec 4 sec After running the code above every second some text was printed
Read more

Tar basic commands to store and extract files

-
Targeted is an archiving program designed to package, store, and compress multiple files into a single portable package the name tar is an abbreviation for tape archiver Apart from creating .tar archives tar is also capable of compressing files using zip, bzip2, and gzip compression algorithms Tar flags c — compress directive x — extract directive t — tabulate contents f — specify filename z — use zip/gzip compression j — use bzip2 compression k — do not overwrite t — files from file w — ask for configuration v — verbose gzip flags d — decompress file Tar commandline commands syntax tar -{arguments} {params} Example tar commands tar -cf music.tar music.mp3 Tar archiver will be directed to compress music.mp3 into a tar archive named music.tar and save it in the current working directory tar -xf music.tar Tar will be directed to extract music.tar archive and save the constituent contents of the archive...
Read more

Installing and using 'cowsay' with fortune

-
what is 'cowsay'  it's a simple commandline program of a cow which basically prints whatever text argument you pass to it inform of a speech bubble from a ancii cow c:owsay goes hand in hand with another cli programme called fortune it generates text fortune messages which can be easy be tunnelled into cowsay Cowsay is so popular that i decides to write a how to installation post To get started open your commandline terminal and type sudo apt-get update  sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install cowsay To install another cli app 'fortune' type the following in your terminal sudo apt-get install fortune After installation test fortune by typing in your console fortune // typical response Training is everything.  The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.                 -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" To test cowsay type cowsay fo...
Read more