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Pulling a git repo from github to your Ubuntu server

A quick tutorial showing you how to install and setup git on an Ubuntu server and pull a repo from Github.

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How to list all of a users groups in Ubuntu

If you need to see all of the groups assigned to a user simply type the following into the Terminal:

groups username

To display all the groups on your Ubuntu system just type:

groups

 

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Linux Tutorials

How to find the owner and group of a directory in Ubuntu

There are two ways to find the owner and group of a directory in Ubuntu:

First way:

ls -l /path/to/file

The 3rd field outputted is the user and and the fourth is the group

drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 4096 Feb  7 01:17 foldername

Second way:

stat -c "%U %G" /path/to/file

This will return

user group
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Linux Tutorials

Setup a folder so that new files created in it inherit default permissions and group

A quick tutorial showing you how to ensure that new files created in your file structure will inherit the existing user and groups (no matter which user creates the new files). This tutorial is for Debian/Ubuntu and Mac: