Tag: linux

Compile Bash Script into Binary in Linux

sudo apt install shc

Compile script file using shc

shc -f hello.sh

Check generated files

ls -l hello*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    29 Mar 14 07:37 hello.sh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 user user 14960 Mar 14 07:39 hello.sh.x
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 10047 Mar 14 07:39 hello.sh.x.c

.sh is the original script.
sh.x is the compiled binary.
.sh.x.c is the C source code generated from the .sh file prior to compiling to .sh.x.

hello.sh.x permission is automatically set as executable

Rename executable

mv hello.sh.x hello

Check file execution

./hello Alice

References
https://www.simplified.guide/bash/compile-script

Install Firefox from Mozilla on Ubuntu 22.04

Download Firefox from Firefox Download Page

tar xjf firefox-*.tar.bz2
mv firefox /opt

Create a symlink to the Firefox executable:

ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox

Create a .desktop file for firefox :

touch ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop
# or
touch /usr/local/share/applications/firefox.desktop

and paste these lines there:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Firefox Web Browser
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
GenericName=Web Browser
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer
Exec=firefox %u
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;application/x-xpinstall;
StartupNotify=true

Logout and login again

References
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux

No Writes for Read Timestamps to optimize SSD on Ubuntu

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Edit the mounting options for your partitions by adding the text noatime and nodiratime to the lines defining your root (/) and other partitions if you have them (/home)

# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=587e0dc5-2db1-4cd9-9792-a5459a7bcfd2 /               ext4    noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro 0       1

# /home was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=2c919dc4-24de-474f-8da0-14c7e1240ab8 /home           ext4    noatime,nodiratime,defaults        0       2

References
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1400/how-do-i-optimize-the-os-for-ssds