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Bash script how to run a command remotely and then exit the remote terminal

I'm trying to execute the command: ssh nvidia@ubuntu-ip-address "/opt/ads2/arm-linux64/bin/ads2 svcd &" This works so far except that it hangs in the remote terminal when "/opt/ads2/...
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Create Symbolic link into Gnome's online account --googleDrive?

I have a question to ask, how can I create a symbolic link into the drive's path from my local directory? In the past, I've done it using the OpenDive package, but never tried with gnome's online ...
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Is there any posssible way to remotely control my own android device using terminal?

Is there any posssible way to remotely control my own android device using terminal ? I will be using it for completely ethical purposes. I just want to control my android phone using terminal.
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How to connect remotely to the Ubuntu CLI from a Mac?

I have a mac and I want to access my ubuntu Desktop's hardware remotely from anywhere to run some programs. I am aware of apps like teamviewer however I am only interested in using Ubuntu's terminal ...
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How do I remove another computer which has remote access to my laptop?

I visited a friend recently and he uploaded Linux on my laptop. He uploaded many programs from his laptop unto mine using a terminal. To do this he had to add a very long code from his laptop onto my ...
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stay connected to wifi when all users log out

When I logout from my session, and no other user is logged locally, the wifi connection is stopped. I would like to keep it on, so that I can log on from a remote computer. How can I do that?
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Remote terminal into a ubuntu system via internet

I have this machine in a separate network which has connected to internet via NAT. My computer is connected to internet and to access that machine I use teamviewer. Now I am tired of teamviewer and ...
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How do you send and receive data from one machine to another?

Good day, AskUbuntu! As the title implies, I would like to know if it's possible to subscribe and receive data from a terminal running from another Ubuntu desktop, and how one would go about doing so. ...
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How to connect to a Windows PC from an Ubuntu terminal over the Internet?

I want to access my Windows 10 PC over the Internet via an Ubuntu terminal. Is this possible? (I don't want to use a remote desktop client, just the terminal.)
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How to run multiple scripts in remote machine

I have to remotely connect to a gateway (working on Linux platform), inside which I have couple of executable files (signingModule.sh and taxModule.sh). Now I want to write one script in my desktop ...
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Is an online Ubuntu terminal emulator available?

I want to play around with some terminal commands from official Ubuntu packages, but at the moment I don't have access to an Ubuntu PC. Is there an online and free terminal emulator running, say, ...
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Why does shutdown from a remote terminal fail to power off my machine? [duplicate]

I have noticed that if I shutdown Ubuntu 14.04 from a remote terminal via ssh and running sudo shutdown now, the machine does not power off. If I use the GUI (shut down using Unity on the machine ...
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Problems accessing my Ubuntu system

I have a problem accessing to my Ubuntu 13.04 system. Recently I updated from 12 to 13 and after some hard work I am able to input my password and user name, but I can't get any further, because the ...
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Command-line control login remotely from another computer

I need a way to get command-line control of a computer remotely, from another computer. That is, I need a secure way to log in from another machine on the network using a terminal.
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keyboard behaves differently under bash

When logged to other computer from windows under bash, putty maps keys properly but under other shells like sh or zsh keys like Delete are mapped incorrectly (to ~ character). Setting XTERM to ...
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Does "old" rsh exist in Ubuntu?

I wanted to try out rsh (or rshell?) - the old, insecure way of logging in remotely. On my Ubuntu 11.04, it turns out an rsh command exists: $ which rsh /usr/bin/rsh ... however, it turns out it ...
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How to shut down the 70+ systems by the one remote machine?

What ways are there to shut down a computer remotely? My desktop is running Ubuntu 12.04 desktop edition and when I try to shut it down remotely, it doesn't actually work. I used the command sudo ...
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Problem with scp syntax

I am trying to copy a .tar archive from remote server to my pc. Directory of the archive that I want to copy: canserhan@embserv:~/tar_files/rtl_archive.tar Destination: serhan@serhan-Lenovo-B560:~/...
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Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to allow automatic login?

I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and ssh for connecting to many servers daily, so I put their parameters in the .ssh/config file like this: Host Home User netmoon Port 22 HostName test.com Is there a way to ...
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Switch encoding of terminal with a command

One of the servers I quite often ssh to uses western encoding instead of utf-8 (and there's no way I can change that). I've started writing a bash script to connect to this server, so I won't have to ...
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How do I get package update notifications on login?

In Ubuntu 11.04 Server when I would log in via ssh it would tell me how many packages are available for updating in the welcome message. After upgrading to 11.10 I no longer get that information. Is ...
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Is there any way to connect to Windows PowerShell from the terminal?

I want to access a Windows machine from Ubuntu. I don't want to connect with to the GUI (rdesktop) - instead I want to connect to Windows PowerShell from the terminal. This is because I want to ...
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How to enter the Default Keyring password via the command line?

Is there a way to enter the default keyring password using the command line? For instance: You have a remote setup of Ubuntu 10.10 thats set to auto login. You don't want to remove the keyring ...
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Volume control command

Is there a way to control volume of a remote system via ssh? we have a media center server and we want to remotely control the volume.
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