GNU is a 'nix operating system developed by the GNU project. GNU is normally used with the Linux kernel.
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Match regex pattern only in filename.extension
I need to use find to locate a file matching a regex pattern in filename.extension instead of the default, which matches /path/to/filename.extension.
For instance:
/folder
|--a-love-song.ogg
...
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GNU/GRUB - Misaligned display/screen [duplicate]
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 with Windows 7 - and upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 recently - Ubuntu installed the GRUB boot menu. When I first got Ubuntu, I changed the default OS to Windows 7. But now I ...
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GNU GRUB - Misaligned display/screen
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 with Windows 7 - and upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 recently - Ubuntu installed the GRUB (version 2.00-7ubuntu11) boot menu. When I first got Ubuntu, I changed the default OS ...
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chmod symbolic notation: unexpected “=” operation behavior
I am reading The Linux Command Line by William Shotts and I read somewhere in the book a part regarding permissions which says The operation may be a “+” indicating that a permission is to be added, a ...
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Are IceWeasel and IceCat just different rebrandings, or are they 'really' different?
As we know, Firefox' branding (name, logo etc.) is non-free copyrighted, so some Linux distributions package (more-)fully-free versions.
However, I can't get a straight explanation on Wikipedia (here ...
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Can gnu screen prompt for a title when a new window is created?
There are a number of questions about automatically naming screen windows based on what's running in them.
But sometimes why you created the window is more important than what you're doing in it.
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vsftp ip-based rights management
I have an ftp server, visible from internet. I want to have anonymous read-only access for whole world and write acess only to my local home net. Is is possible without configuring two instances of ...
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how to download weblinks using wget which do not end with .html?
I want to download this webpage using wget in Win7 : ...
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How to download multiple urls using wget using a single command?
I am using following command to download a single webpage with all its images and js using wget in win7:
wget -E -H -k -K -p -e robots=off -P /Downloads/ ...
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Are there any GNU/Linux distributions which use a stable core and the latest and greatest software? [closed]
With "stable core" I mean the kernel, grub, init system, x server, audio server, et cetera. Basically everything that is essential for the OS to function.
Some distributions that I have looked into:
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sed without regex
I am using GNU SED for find and replace functionality on large files(upto 2GB).
Find and replace characters can contain any characters, hence I want find and replace parameters to be treated as plain ...
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How to do a multiline search in less?
In less, can you search using / for a pattern that contains a carriage return and newline? I know your pattern can end with a line using $ (from How do I include newlines in a search in less?), but I ...
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GNU find .extension files and -exec, while new .extension files are being made
Here is a problem, can someone please explain or provide some references. I've been trying to read since an hour but can not find the answer.
Suppose, I have process1 going on a pool of directories. ...
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How to indicate the directory where I am in Linux
Hi I want to know the command to indicate the directory where I am . Suppose I am in home/subho . Now to indicate that directory let's for gnome-open I will write
gnome-open ../subho
Is there any ...
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Emacs mailer with gpg
How configure Emacs Wanderlust to automatically insert signature and, more importantly,
automatically sign outcoming mail? I am not keen to use Wanderlust, but Gnus seems to treat mail strange ...
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set sink index in pulseaudio
Is there some configuration option to specify that X device should always grab sink index Y? Much like you can force a specific sound card driver to have a specific card index in alsa?
Failing that, ...
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ubuntu boots into gnu grub 1.99
I've tried
set root=(hd0,2)
chainloader +1
boot
set root=(hd0,2)
linux /boot/vmlinuz...
and the loopback (loop0) /ubuntu/disks/root.disk command etc.
When I try the boot command it tells me ...
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How to find mouse binding in Emacs for mouse-5 events?
In Gnu Emacs v23, I'd like to find out what is bound to mouse events like the following:
<mouse-5>
<double-down-mouse-5>
<double-mouse-5>
<triple-down-mouse-5>
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Change specific font in pdf document
I have a PDF file, which has a buggy font (some d's, o's and q's with black color fill inside the circe) which is annoying to read.
How can i change that specific font in the whole document, keeping ...
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How to update autoconf if I don't have root privilege?
Failed to run autoreconf -iv, for i am using a old autoconf, but i can not update it using system package manager since i am not root
so how to update autoconf from 2.59 to 2.64?
error message when ...
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sed Command on BusyBox expects different syntax?
I hope I phrased the question correct.
I have a script that makes use of 'sed' a lot. It works great on my ubuntu with the GNU 'sed'.
But when I try to run it on BusyBox it fails.
Is there a way to ...
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bash get home dir by username
I want to obtain home dir of any user with echo
echo ~puchuu
>> /home/puchuu
But I cant use variable
echo ~$USER
>> ~puchuu
echo `echo ~$USER`
>> ~puchuu
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GNU tar symlink preservation on case by case basis
I'm trying to create a tarball, and there is one specific file that I need to preserve as a symlink in the tarball. However, there are a lot of other symlinks that I can't preserve as symlinks, ...
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How to open a file whose name is given within another file in Emacs
For example, if my A.txt contains the following line:
summary is at: /summary/is/at/summary.txt
how can I open summary.txt without having to copy-paste the path, or write the whole path after C-x ...
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save bash history, regularly
I have bash set up to save history, to a file. It does this whenever bash exits [properly]. As sometimes bash does not exit properly the history is lost.
So the question is can I set up bash to save ...
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How do I stop GNU Freetalk from automatically filling in the buddy name?
I'm using GNU Freetalk along with expect in order to send notifications to my phone – Freetalk has a readline interface, and I use expect to make a series of non interactive scripts that send ...
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Is Debian Squeeze's tar still lacking a tar with xattr support?
Is it true? At least on my Ubuntu 12.x, the shipped GNU tar does not have the --xattrs option ...but why?? (and what are my alternatives, to backup files with xattr?)
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Transcode videos to webm with lossless compression
I am using GNU/Linux(Arch Linux), and i need to transcode some videos from .avi/.mov to .webm.
I don't have the original file for most videos, only the "very compressed" .avi, and i can't loose any ...
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Cause GNU make to exit with error on depedency problems
Is there a way to get GNU Make to exit with an error if it encounters a dependency error? For example, if the following is in the Makefile:
fileA: fileB fileA
@echo "(fileA) installing fileA"
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Will multicore allow the same CPU usage as multi CPU [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Multi-core CPU: can I say I have a 3x2.1GHz=6.3GHz CPU?
I plan to buy latop with with i5-2410M processor that have 2 cores (according to spec it can also have 4 ...
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Archlinux: Where I can find gcc-4.4-multilib?
As in the topic, I can't find it in AUR, there is only gcc-4.4 or gcc-4.5-multilib. I need gcc-4.4-multilib because of Android compilation.
Or if you know - is there any way to compile Android with ...
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gnu sort alphanumerically by one column, followed by numerically in next column?
How can I sort a text file with GNU sort starting with alphanumeric sort by one column, followed by numerical sort in the next column?
I tried sort -n -k1,2 file.txt, but it doesn't seem to work:
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gnu coreutils split verbose flushed?
When using the GNU coreutils split command with verbose mode, how can I make the lines that appear in the STDOUT be flushed with respect to the time when the file has finally been created?
Fore ...
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Is 64 bit GNU/Linux faster than 32 bit?
I have 32bit Ubuntu on AMD 64 machine, if I install 64 bit GNU/Linux will it will run faster?
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How to remove directories from source after copying them?
I just want to move dirs. I looked successively at mv, cp and rsync, since each tool in turn didn't seem to have the option to remove directories from source after copying them.
For instance, mv needs ...
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Text wrangling: How can I get just the key comment from authorized_keys?
Auditing some servers, I need a list of the comments on all the authorised keys in the authorized_keys file.
How can I cut this file to display a list of comments, eg user@host?
Anything can appear ...
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Can tar be forced to exit on the first error?
By default, for many kinds of errors tar prints a message to stderr and then continues on its way -- the errors it calls "recoverable" errors, typically errors that relate to a single file or archive ...
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Disable halt, poweroff, reboot, shutdown
we have a RHEL 5.5 admin server, all the team member from same project can access as root via sudo, from this admin server we login all servers as root. now we need to block/disable such halt, ...
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remove deleted OSs from grub 1.98 boot menu
I am trying to remove entries for deleted operating systems, from grub 1.98 menu.
I am using Gnu/Linux Debian 6 ( grub version 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 ).
I have an Ubuntu partition with 10 kernel ...
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Unix tools: what if a file is named minus something?
I'm always wondering: most GNU/Unix tools take options in the form "minus something", sometimes followed by an argument. What if you got a file named minus something?
$ ls
-f
$ rm -f
$ ls
-f
$ mv -f ...
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GNU inetutils pre-compilation problems
I am trying to compile GNU inteutils on Debian and experiencing some problems. configure is going thru without any issues but when I launch make to compile I receive the following messages:
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How to rename folders with a converted date format?
They're named with date '+%d-%m-%Y, %a, %k.%M.%S'. I'm looking to rename them to date '+%Y-%m-%d, %a, %H.%M.%S'.
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Executing local script/command on remote server
I have a command that I want to run on machine B from machine A. If I run the command on machine B locally, it works fine.
Here is the command:
for n in `find /data1/ -name 'ini*.ext'` ; do echo ...
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How to install GNU make in Windows 7?
I am trying to install GNU make-3.82 on Windows 7. I downloaded the make-3.82.tar.gz setup but it does not have any setup file.
There is process given on GNU site. But when I reach to the folder in ...
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What is emacs? What makes it so popular? [closed]
What is EMACS ? I only know that it is some kind of text-editor, but what makes them it popular? How it different from the default text editor in windows which is notepad ? I read about it on ...
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gnu `uniq -c`: display counts graphically as bars
With sort $file | uniq -c, it's possible to sum up files/input and show the number occurences like that:
13 foo
1 bar
To get a better grasp of this data, I'd like to see them graphically ...
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LANG and LANGUAGE environment variable in Debian based systems
It seems both the LANG and LANGUAGE environment variable are used by some programs to determine their user interface language.
What are the exact semantics of these variables and where can I read ...
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gnu tree: downloading and installing on linux account with no root access?
I would like to download and install (compile) gnu tree on linux machine with no root access, but Googling GNU tree doesn't even give me a page where to download it to. Anyone?
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Does GNU/Linux counts processes and threads together when I limit their number?
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 ...
