Mounting a Windows network drive on WLS

Linux, Networking, WSL/WSL2

By default, you have no access to windows network directories. Those are not visible or accessible unless you will mount them in /mnt/somedir folder. Firts lets crete a folder with in mnt directory that will be then mounted to our network drive. sudo mkdir...
Convert windows path to WSL path format

Convert windows path to WSL path format

IT, Linux, Windows, WSL/WSL2

Let say that we want to cd to a windows explorer directory and we don’t want manually to rewrite all the backslashes. We could write a bash cmd which does just that. cd $(echo ‘C:\laragon\www\docker\phpfpm-mysql-nginx’ | sed ‘s/\\/\//g’ |...

Install and run Docker Desktop on Ubuntu

Docker, Linux, Ubuntu

To install docker desktop on Ubuntu fallow the docker documentation Install docker desktop on Ubuntu Install Docker Desktop on Ubuntu. Start docker desktop on Linux Ubuntu After docker and docker desktop installation, run the docker desktop with command: systemctl...

Create an array and loop over it in bash

Bash, Linux

See the fallowing example. Note the use of () after +=. #!/bin/bash #Plugins: #AFC | #itsecurity | … #https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/bash-arrays UPDATEFILE=y if [ “$UPDATEFILE” = “y” ] then PLUGINARR=()...

Create multiple directories with LINUX mkdir -p

Bash, Linux, Linux CLI

mkdir -p maindir/{assets/{css,js,img},src/{sass,types,img},dirX,dirY} Produces: The -p flag tells the mkdir command to create the main directory first if it doesn’t already exist (htg, in our case). The words in the brackets are part of the “brace expansion list”....