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Regarding separate a single file into multiple files according to line separation
Currently, I have a plain text file, A, such as
lowest priority
very high significance.
outstanding
very novel
In this file, every line contains a sentence. I want to separate this file into ...
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Understanding character device (or character special) files
I am trying to understand character special files. From wikipedia, I understand that these files
"provide an interface" for devices that transmit data one character at a time. My understanding is ...
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How to get a list all the “aliases” of a file (including of type directory) efficiently?
How can one get the list of all the aliases of a file (including of type directory) efficiently, given that a file:
may have multiple hard links, multipe soft links, multi-level soft links
may be ...
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How can I get entries for a given time period from a 400MB+ log file?
I have a 400MB+ Tomcat log file (catalina.out). How can I pull out entries for a given time period?
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Efficiently delete large directory containing thousands of files
We have an issue with a folder becoming unwieldy with hundreds of thousands of tiny files.
There are so many files that performing rm -rf returns an error and instead what we need to do is something ...
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Drop a specific file from the Linux filesystem cache?
I know I can drop everything from the Linux filesystem cache, but is there a way to drop just one specific file? Or prevent a file from being cached? Or tell a process not to cache any files it ...
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Editing images with sips doesn't work without being executed directly from Terminal?
I made a cheesy application with a bash script using CocoaDialog, and within this application I need to modify the size of a photo. So, I researched a little and found the sips command; and it works ...
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Move huge number of files into date structured directory order
I have about 1 million files in this directory: /home/username/images/
Each of the files are called something like: 012345678910(Place)_0_20120414185957_28841.jpg with the timestamp part of the ...
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Writing To Disk Before Install
I burned Pinguy to a disk, and loaded the disk. If I create files, then save them, but don't install Pinguy, and then take out the disk, will those files be gone the next time I boot from the disk, or ...
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How to properly and easy configure `xdg-open` without any enviroment?
I'm using OpenBox window manager without any desktop enviroment.
xdg-open behaves strangely. It opens everything with firefox.
$ xdg-settings --list
Known properties:
default-web-browser ...
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Why the inode value of shadow file changes?
I created a hard link for the shadow file. For removing the passwd of the user I opened the shadow file in vi editor and removed the encrypted passwd and then saved. The inode value of the shadow file ...
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Is there a way to undo the 'cpp' command in terminal?
I accidentally typed cpp Scriptname.py DestinationDirectory, intending to copy the Python script into the folder.
I realized afterward that I should have used cp, but now my Python script is ...
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How can I change 'change' date of file?
How can I change 'change' date?
$ touch -t 9901010000 test;stat test
File: `test'
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty file
Device: fe01h/65025d Inode: 11279017 ...
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Giving PHP permission to write to files and folders
UPDATED FOR FURTHER CLARITY:
According to http://expressionengine.com/user_guide/installation/installation.html, it says:
For most Unix hosts the following is typical, but you may check with your ...
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Restoring an open file
I have an interesting problem which may or may not have a solution but I'd love to have one if possible:
On Solaris an open log file has been removed, which still continues to be populated while the ...
