GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix. The original kernel intended for GNU, Hurd, has been under development since 1984, and has yet to release a stable version. For this reason, most GNU operating systems use linux as their kernel. The GNU tag can be used for any software developed by the GNU project.
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Does GNU/Linux counts processes and threads together
I want to limit the number of processes per user on my machine, with "/etc/security/limits.conf" and the nproc value.
I have read here
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How to setup MX Record?
I am trying to setup a mail server in my PC for my LAN network and I opted for Postfix but the configuration ask me to configure the MX Record, something about DNS configuration but I have no idea of ...
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GNU Screen: Combining split-regions and full-screen sessions
Let's say I have three sessions: 0, 1 and 2
I'm on session 0 and I press CTRL-A S to split the screen. Then I select session 1 for the bottom split region, while 0 is in the upper.
Can I switch to ...
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Scrolling in GNU Screen
I'm seeing something weird in GNU screen. When I use screen on my own Ubuntu 10.04 box, as I enter a bunch of lines in the shell, I can see my GNOME-terminal window gathering my scrollback, and I can ...
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Can I use gnu grep to search for unmatched parens (and similar)?
I write text files in the MoinMoin Wiki markup language in a text editor (emacs). When I mis-place one of the special tags my whole page gets mangled with the wrong formatting -- or worse. I always ...
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How to go past window 9 in GNU Screen without going to Window list?
I use GNU Screen tool to keep my sessions alive on the system. To switch between windows I use Ctrl+a N where N is the number of the window. I want to use similar keystroke to access windows with ...
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Where to put the GPG keys in $HOME/.gnupg?
I run OpenSuse 11.4 and KDE 4.6. I installed Thunderbird and Enigma.
Thunderbird is the following version: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 SUSE/3.1.7 ...
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Windows port of jwhois?
Other than UnxUtils or GnuWin32, does anyone know of any Windows ports of the GNU jwhois utility? UnxUtils contains a very old version (2.4.1) that no longer works properly, and GnuWin32 crashes ...
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Emacs in terminal mode and line wrap
Why does emacs display a "\" when a line wraps? Visually this is no issue, but if I want to copy a line which also wraps, the "\" character is also copied to the clipboard. How do I get rid of this?
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Can I name GNU screen sessions?
I use multiple sessions for different things. One for work, one for school work and one each project I'm working on. It gets really hard to keep track of the sessions when screen -ls returns
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GNUWin32 mkid says 'can't get working directory'
I installed the GNU id-utils for Windows from here and when I try to run mkid it says:
mkid: can't get working directory: Permission denied
I tried to change to the gunwin32 bin directory as an ...
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Grep log for certain word only if followed by another word
I have a log file with entries like the following:
Input
php notice bob
php notice winner
php notice blah winner
php notice asfsdf test
php erro)r bob ...
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GNU find: Disable the error when 'find' finds no matches
I've got a setup where I need to use 'find' to find 0 or more files in a certain directory, however, 'find' always produces an error when there are no files that match a certain check. Is it possible ...
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What is the difference between GNU's “Free Software” and “Open Source Software”? [closed]
I've always referred to free and open source software simply as "Open Source". However, some people have approached me saying that these two "things" (or philosophies) actually aren't the same at all. ...
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Receive shutdown broadcast notification in desktop (GNU/Linux, Gnome)
When
# shutdown +5
is run all the terminals (including pseudo terminals) are sent broadcast messages saying system is about to go down.
Is it possible for user to receive this in the form of OSD ...
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sort by word length in Nth column
I've got a column file like this:
1 1 1 AKSDFJADFKASDJFAK
2 1 1 ADKLCJASDLKCJDLACKADCJLKDACJADS
3 1 2 AKLJDFHALKDJFHLKJSDKSDFHAKJFDHAKFHJAKFJ
And I would like to sort the entries by the fourth ...
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When does rm remove open files?
Particularly, I want to know what happens when I rm an open file and don't explicitly kill the process holding the file descriptor to that file. Will the file be removed when the system is shut down?
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Cross-platform implementation of GNU tools? (Preferably Java)
I'd like to have GNU tools available on multiple platforms, behaving the same.
I know there are ports, like http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/, but they are different from what's supported by the linux ...
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How to install and use GNU unifont in cygwin on Windows7?
I'm using GNU unifont on FreeBSD and would like to have the same font available under Windows7 in a cygwin terminal. My attempts to install GNU unifont for general use (so it would be available in ...
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GNU sort and git blame
Today I thought I was doing a simple operation:
git blame file | sort -k 3
To get all the lines of file sorted by the date on which they were last changed. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be ...
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Difference between find -name with and w/o quotes?
I was going to file a bug to findutils on gnu.org when I saw a notice that asked me whether I knew the difference between these two commands:
find -name *.c
and
find -name "*.c"
I use find ...
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Gnu Tools for Windows
I was looking for Gnu Tools for Windows and came across two links:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
and
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
Does anyone know what is the difference between them and ...
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What is the character used to indent the Make file rule recipe?
I am using gnu make and in a Makefile I have, I see below rule.
I want to add a similar rule with a recipe, but when I add a rule and its receipe on the next line by giving a tab or space for the ...
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Disable GNU Screen “Special Terminal Capabilities” function?
I would like to disable SPECIAL TERMINAL CAPABILITIES of GNU screen. How do I do it?
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GNU screen freezes when starting session over SSH, works locally. What's wrong?
On an iMac running Snow Leopard I can open a terminal window and start a 'screen' session with no issues. However, if I ssh into the same machine (from elsewhere or locally) and then try to start a ...
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May I use code from GNU (2.0) licensed open-sourced SW for commercial purposes
My case exactly. I need to implement a feature in a Wordpress theme. Found a GNU licensed plugin for Wordpress which does that. Am i allowed freely to copy and modify those code parts and incorporate ...
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What is a Makefile.inc?
I have a basic questions as to if some Makefile includes a Makefile.inc.
Generally what commands/configurations/rules go into the Makefile.inc ?
Any pointers would be useful.
thank you.
-AD
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Make GNU screen survive reboot
I am using GNU screen a lot. I find it very annoying that everytime the server has to be rebooted I lose all my sessions (even if I know in advance, I need to set-up everything again).
I've searched ...
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Get man page for different implementation of same command?
On SunOS man grep gives me the man page for the SunOS grep but grep --version says it's grep (GNU grep) 2.5. How do I get the man page for GNU grep?
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A good list of command line *nix like apps for windows?
I'm looking for a list of command line *nix like apps for windows.
I suppose gnuwin32 is a good idea, and cygwin...
Each give a good list.
any other ideas?
I know sometimes there are good programs ...
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What alternatives to SSH do GNU users use?
I have heard that SSH was originally for BSD.
Is this correct? And what alternatives to SSH do GNU users use?
Or do people just not use GNU for SSH or an SSH type application?
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Getting information from armord gpg public key
When given a file with an armored public GnuPG key, a file (pubkey.gpg) that was created with:
gpg -r 0xDEADBEEF --export --armored > pubkey.gpg
What is the best way to get information such as ...
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Can GNU sed (for Windows) handle Unicode? If so, is it a code-page/locale issue, or a switch?
I've been using GNU SED on and off for a couple of years now. It spins me out a bit sometimes, but it does a good job... for single-byte char sets!
I now and then notice references to GNU SED being ...
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Difference between UnxUtils and GNU CoreUtils
I am a Windows user who wants programs like grep and sed along with other utilities like ls, cut etc in my command prompt. I came across 2 packages which would accomplish this
UnxUtils
GNU ...
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GNU Screen: Better way to cut and paste?
I've been using GNU Screen for close to 3 years and find it immensely useful. For such a robust and flexible program I find its cut and paste functionality a little basic.
Has anyone found a better ...
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Vertical Split in GNU Screen on Mac OS X
I recently became enamored with the excellent app in Ubuntu GNU screen. I was really happy to see it installed on my Mac as well, but I can't split vertically... I guess I need to update it somehow. I ...
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Installing GNU GPL softwares in office [closed]
I had installed WinMerge and Notepad++ in office computer. My Manager told that I am not supposed to install these softwares in office as it is illegal. What could be the reason? I was under the ...
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GNU License restrictions. Can I write and distribute/sell programms for Linux? [closed]
How does the GNU license work?
I understand, that I am not allowed to do some modifications to Linux, then compile it, put it in CD and start selling or distributting without source code, right?
But ...
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Installing GNU Prolog on Mac OS X (getting a Bus Error)
Just installed gnu prolog on Mac OS X 10.4 but it is not working. When I go:
% ./gprolog
Bus error
Anyone have any ideas?
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How do I add color syntax highlighting to GNU emacs?
I have two versions of emacs available to me on a locked workstation:
$ /usr/local/bin/emacs --version
GNU Emacs 22.3.1
$ /usr/bin/emacs --version
GNU Emacs 21.4.1
In both cases, my terminal type ...
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UnxUtils.zip: GNU utilities for Win32 (download link)
Where can I find the latest Gnu utilities for windows to download?
The download link in the project homepage is a 403.
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How short a time can time (the Linux program) measure?
I'm just wondering what the limits for time are. I have a program that always takes exactly 20 ms, so I assume this is the lowest it can measure, but I want to see if there's some sort of ...
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OpenSolaris and NTFS
Is there any way to mount NTFS partitions in OpenSolaris? This is the main issue preventing me from testing it out for more than a day. I need to be able to mount my external. I have vast experience ...
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GNU find with -exec rm removes matches, then complains they don't exist
I have a /domains directory in which I have entries such as
theawesomesite.com
0.2.v.theawesomesite.com
0.3.v.theawesomesite.com
And after testing 0.3, I'll set the main domain to alias the new ...
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Dividing with Gnu's bc
I'm just starting with Gnu's bc and I'm stuck at the very beginning (very discouraging...). I want to divide two numbers and get a float as result:
$bc
bc 1.06.94
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, ...
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Why doesn't “find -print0” work in Cygwin under Vista?
I'm writing a simple shell script:
find datafiles/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > datafiles.md5
In Cygwin under Vista, it just sits there and nothing happens.
It works fine on Linux.
What ...
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How do you install gnu MAKE without compiler
I'm a little new in this area. I have a virtual machine centos5.1 that doesn't come with make or any compiler... basically stripped down. It doesn't come with any install packages like yum, rpm or ...
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find: -exec vs xargs (aka Why does “find | xargs basename” break?)
I was trying to find all files of a certain type spread out in subdirectories, and for my purposes I only needed the filename. I tried stripping out the path component via basename, but it did't work ...
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GNU Octave: How to change base from DEC to BIN?
I need to do many binary calculations of the form:
10.1^(1/11) base 2
10.001^(1/11) base 2
10.0001^(1/11) base 2
10.00001^(1/11) base 2
10.000001^(1/11) base 2
...
where 1/11 base 2 = 1/3 base 10.
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How to Combine find and grep for a complex search? ( GNU/linux, find, grep )
I'm trying to do a text search in some files that share a similar directory structure, but are not in the same directory tree, in GNU/Linux.
I have a web server with many sites that share the same ...
