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| location | Chicago, IL | |
| age | 25 | |
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Jul 31 |
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cp or rsync, is cp really worth it? @TechZilla I think you mean, when there's nothing in common. If there is no diff, rsync will just end early 'cause there's nothing to copy, making it far more preferred. |
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Jul 24 |
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How can I stop ls from descending into directories, similar to prune for find? If you have an absurd number of files, though, the globbing in manatwork's answer may reach the limit of the command line length. This won't. |
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Jul 20 |
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How do I copy a folder keeping owners and permissions intact? (Beginner Question) +1, cp -p is nice, but I like rsync's output so much more in general that I've aliased pcp to time rsync --progress -ah. Stands for "progress copy" in my mind. And both accept -r, so it works well for general terminal usage - but unfortunately, not in combination with sudo as shown in this question/answer. |
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Jul 17 |
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Run unix command precisely at very short intervals WITHOUT accumulating time lag over time Plus stopping it is easy. No need to risk killing it in the middle of a cycle - remove the entry from the crontab and it finishes on its own at the end of the minute. |
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Jul 17 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jul 17 |
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Run unix command precisely at very short intervals WITHOUT accumulating time lag over time added 322 characters in body |
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Jul 17 |
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Run unix command precisely at very short intervals WITHOUT accumulating time lag over time May I ask why this was downvoted? |
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Jul 16 |
answered | Run unix command precisely at very short intervals WITHOUT accumulating time lag over time |
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Jul 13 |
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How to delete in vim everything in between the cursor and the end of the line while on insert mode? @LucHermitte That last one doesn't work in vim or in gvim. It works in notepad. |
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Jun 15 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Jun 15 |
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What is the space overhead of different filesystems? Torrent programs have an option that I think will do the same thing, for incomplete downloads. (At least, the description in Azureus sounds like what you're describing) |
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May 25 |
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Run a command that is shadowed by an alias @Mikel There is a package "sl" that provides "sl" as "ls". The tips bash gives in Ubuntu also say that "LS" is provided by "sl". |
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Apr 28 |
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Suggest me a distro “beetwen debian and ubuntu”? This has an actual answer: Try out an alternative desktop environment. KDE (which is more windows-like), Xfce, Enlightenment.... There's a lot out there, and most of them are not Mac-like. And they work on Ubuntu, so you don't have to install a whole new OS - just install the new one, log out, and switch which one to log in using. |
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Apr 26 |
answered | sed pattern matching |
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Apr 26 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Apr 26 |
answered | Efficiently delete large directory containing thousands of files |
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Feb 22 |
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How do I extract all .htaccess files from a tarball? Also, don't forget to rm files when done, or you may be quite confused in a month or two.. ;) |
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Feb 8 |
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Quick directory navigation in the terminal Ooh, I knew about pushd and popd for traversal, but not that pushd could rotate what's been used so far... |
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Jan 25 |
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Are Linux utilities smart when running piped commands? Cool, I didn't know that happened. I thought grep would continue sending output into a void, similar to /dev/null |
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Dec 26 |
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How to do block selection in `screen` Aha, I suppose that's what I get for not checking immediately before posting - I'm certain there is a key combination similar to what I posted (not using c and C, I've done it before) that does block selection, but mine is regular selection |
