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Attach screen on a running terminal

I have a long running process in a (virtual) terminal that unfortunately was not started in a (gnu) screen session. Is there a way to migrate it in a screen session? (obviously, without stopping it) ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...