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Why does find -mtime +1 only return files older than 2 days?

CentOS 5.9 I'm struggling to wrap my mind around why the find interprets file modification times the way it does. Specifically, I don't understand why the -mtime +1 doesn't show files less than 48 ...
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How to use -d in ntfsundelete?

As far as I can tell from the manpage of ntfsundelete getting a file back is done with e.g. ntfsundelete /dev/sdb3 -u -m important.txt which would undelete the file in-place. If I don't want ...
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Where is the default icon used by Gnome when no icons are found?

Just to experiment, I moved the folder /user/share/icons/ away, as in saved it on a USB drive and deleted it from Linux. Now, all icons are shown as the default "white" icon. Where is this icon ...
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Use inotifywait to move file when it loads in dropbox folder

I'm trying to find a way to immediately move a file to another folder as soon as it appears in my dropbox on CentOS. I have scoured the internet for some clues but I can't get any further than the ...
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run file from different directory [closed]

I have a directory mainfolder with a subdirectory execution which contains a configure script. I can switch to the execution directory and run ./configure and it works fine. Now I'm trying to figure ...
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Fix “firefox is already running” issue in Linux

I am trying to open Firefox in CentOS, but I'm getting the following message: Firefox is already running but is not responding and Firefox doesn't open. I tried this in command line: kill ...
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How can I uncompress gz files in random directories and store the decompressed files in those same directories?

CentOS 5.9 I've got a server with a foo.ext.gz file located in a variety of random directories. Example: /opt/fooapp/foosubdirectory/foo_randomnumber/blah/blah/foo.ext.gz ...
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When running a terminal, I get the default bash prompt

Whenever I run a terminal in Linux (Centos), my console line starts with: bash-4.1$ During the Centos installation, I created a user 'mark'. Later on that day, I needed to change the name to 'john' ...
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Colorize Bash Console Color

I need to be able to set my CentOS 6.4 bash prompt color to yellow. I've managed to find where to set this (.bashrc) and the ANSI color for yellow (\e[0;33m). I've setup my prompt as follows: ...
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What process is running before I even get a prompt?

When I log in to a specific server I see the following: Note that I get get Last login: ... information but no prompt. I hit Ctrl+C and only then do I get my prompt, thus proving that my username ...
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Best tool for monitoring server usage

I was just wondering what the best tools for retracing logs and what logs I should be checking to work out what's going wrong with a server, or what the client has executed to get the server into it's ...
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What's the difference between a hard links and copied files?

RHEL 6 My understanding is that hard links include a copy of the original file and that I could delete a hard-linked file in one directory, and it would still exist in the other directory. If ...
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Why would someone want to change the last access date of a file without making actual changes within the file itself?

CentOS 6 I'm studying RHEL / Centos and recently learned that the touch command can be used to change the last access date of a file. I'm struggling to understand a practical reason why anyone would ...
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What's the equivalent to && when writing a bash script?

I apologize in advance if this is a duplicate question. I did make an effort to search/check before asking here. I'm comfortable with writing one-liners like this: foocommand && ...
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Bash config files being read in contradiction to `man bash`

While trying to determine the differences between .bashrc and .bash_profile I notice that .bashrc is never read, and that .bash_profile is only read from SSH, but not from PHP. This seems to ...
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How to have find recurse into subdirectories when using -prune option

I see that the find command does not descend into subdirectories when you're using the -prune option. How do I tell find to recurse into the sub directories, but also ignore some stuff? ...
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How to change terminal character encoding

Today I uninstalled the GUI packages on my home CentOS installation. Now, when the machine starts, I get the login prompt. It acts finicky. Sometimes pressing enter just once after answering each ...
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CentOS | [root@hostname] does not show anymore?

For some reason I logged into my CentOS6 server and at the beginning of every line it normally shows [root@hostname]# Now it shows -bash-4.1# What does this mean? And how to I get it back to ...
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Can I refresh my shell within a shell script?

Very new to Bash scripting... I am trying to setup a script that starts with a minimal CentOS 6 install and provisions it for Ruby development. #!/bin/bash # Add PostgreSQL Repo rpm -i ...
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Where is the system profile that gets sourced at login on CentOS 5.8?

In CentOS release 5.8 (Final), where is the bash system profile? Is it /etc/profile ? I've added the following to source my ~/.bashrc file but haven't had any luck as it fails. I know it fails ...
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What are the different ways that a message can be displayed to a bash shell after a user logs in?

I have a CentOS 5.7 VPS using bash as its shell that displays a branded greeting immediately after logging in via SSH. I've been trying to modify it, but can't seem to find where it is in the usual ...
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How do you omit “./” when running scripts on current directory

On some tutorials over the internet they can run a script on the current directory without doing: ./script How do you omit this? I am using CentOS 5.6 x64. I want to run it this way script
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How do I correct a directory incorrectly copied into itself?

Given the following situation... <path>/mydir1/mydir2 ...where mydir2 should have overwritten mydir1, but was instead placed inside, and both directories actually have the same filename. How ...