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Best synchronization tool for UNIX

I often find myself working on an out-dated version of a document, because I previously edited it on my MacBook and now I'm on my Mac Pro. I'm looking for a tool to help me synchronize this as ...
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Open file in local text editor from within an SSH connection

I'm not a vim guy. I'd like to be able to open log files in Sublime Text when in an SSH connection from within Terminal. Is there a way I could do this? I'm thinking there must be a command or ...
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What makes linux able to run on so many types of hardware? [closed]

I'm curious about what allows Linux to be so much more versatile than other OSes. According to the newbies section on www.linux.com, Linux can: run on notebook computers, desktop computers, ...
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What is the best filesystem for an external USB drive - 2 - 3 TB shared between OSX/Windows/Linux? [duplicate]

I have been using NTFS, but I recently took a drive which is normally attached to a Mac mini running Lion (using Paragon NTFS) and attached it to Windows 7 because the drive was disconnecting ...
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Crunchbang Linux on Mac Mini 6,1

I have a Mac Mini (6,1) and I want to dual boot OSX with crunchbang (chose this distro because Wi-fi works out of the box). First, I installed rEFIt and put crunchbang on a flashdrive. Next, I ...
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Rename recursively files, while keeping the extension

I have a bunch of directories that each hold one *.txt file in it (and other non *.txt files). I'd like to rename those files recursively from the command line, basically *.txt to info.txt. So all ...
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How to make a USB flash drive bootable for Linux on an iMac? [duplicate]

I want to make a USB flash drive bootable on my Mac (iMac 12,1), so I can run a live version of any Linux-derivate and check for viruses on my Boot Camp partition. I've already tried creating one ...
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Can't see SMB directory in Mac Finder when logged in

I setup SMB to show a "Media" section [Media] path = /home/Share/Media writeable = yes browseable = yes valid users = stef guest ok = no Currently, when I check the Shared entry ...
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How do I disable my internet using curl or wget to hit my router in a script?

I want to be able to run some kind of shell script/curl commands to toggle my TV services by accessing a form on my router page using curl or wget. I have been able to get past authentication using ...
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Mounting OSX hard-drive on linux

I believe the motherboard on my macbook died, so I'm trying to recover the information on the disk. I pulled the hard drive from the macbook and plugged it into one of my SATA ports on my Ubuntu ...
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How do I disable indexing in a specific directory across multiple platforms?

I have some files that will be accessed across several platforms (Mac OS X and Windows 7 mainly, but I wouldn't rule out Linux in the future) and I do not want these files indexed by the search ...
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In Bash (Mac/Linux terminal shell), can the up and down arrow keys be made to function as they do in text editors?

In text editors, if I press the up and down arrow keys, it moves the cursor between lines of text. In Bash, if I’m typing a long command that spans multiple lines and I press the up and down arrow ...
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No /mnt/hgfs in Ubuntu guest under VMWare Fusion

I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 inside of VMware Fusion Pro 5. I have the virtual machine configured for read-only sharing of my home directory, but there's no /mnt/hgfs directory and there's no ...
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OSX / Unix: move odd or even numbered files

I have a folder with a range of numbered files (camera images) and I'd like to move every other image into a different folder, so either all the odd numbered images, or all the even ones. How can I do ...
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Sudo su vs su linux

If I enter in the password to su when prompted, it doesnt work while sudo su does. Also, when a command is executed using sudo (command), does sudo automatically execute it by root by default (since ...
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Access Win Partition in Terminal Mac OS X

Is it possible to access (mount?) a partition in Mac OS X through the Terminal? Located at /Volumes/Windows HD/... I have VMWare fusion, but is it possible to access files through the Terminal? ...
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Why does DD at really small and really big ByteSizes copy slower?

I have realized that if I use really small ByteSizes, the dd copy is slower, but if I use really big ByteSizes, it also is slow. I have found that 1M is optimum. Why is this?
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Compiling Evolution 3.9 e-mail client [closed]

There isn't an active port of the Evolution e-mail client for OS X. I'd like to fix that. My question though is how do I get a list of everything Evolution needs to compile. There is this: ...
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wordpress client on OSX/Linux [closed]

I recently picked up writing blogs because I believe writing something formally/semi-formally actually helps one in several aspects. So I signed up a wordpress account. But I really don't like their ...
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Script to auto execute creation of ssh tunnel

I'm a CS student, and still learning a lot of these things, and so please bear with me if I don't have a full grasp on what I'm trying here. I'm on a Mac, connecting to a linux machine. I can set up ...
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How to convert mac osx dictionary to linux readable format?

I would like to be able to take the dictionary data described here: http://priithaamer.com/blog/ruby-on-rails-dictionary-for-macosx And convert it for reading on linux. Is there an app such as ...
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Wifi working while iwconfig shows no wireless - iwconfig

I am using ubuntu 12.04 on a virtual box with osx as a host. I tryied to run iwconfig, but I can't see any wireless extensions. But my wifi is working using my ubuntu machine! How can I manage this ?
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Where do I store sshfs configuration settings?

When using sshfs several sites recommend using options like: -oauto_cache,reconnect,defer_permissions,negative_vncache,volname=RemoteHome I tried adding these in ~/.ssh/config under the hostname: ...
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Sync Folder between Linux and Mac

I have an always-on Linux box in the cloud. On that machine, there are some files I would like to (bidirectionally!) sync to my local machine - my iMac (running 10.8). The files I would like to sync ...
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Portable hard disk has apparently stopped working

I have a Western Digital 500 GB hard disk which I bought about a year ago. It has apparently stopped working since a while ago. The disk contains some very important data which I do not want to lose. ...
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Will linux run faster on G4 than OSX? [closed]

I have a Power Mac G4: Machine Model: PowerMac3,4 CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.9) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 533 MHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB Memory: 512 MB Bus Speed: 133 MHz ...
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Install Linux (BackBox/Ubuntu) beside Mac OSX

I have a MacBook Pro late 2008, 120 GB SSD & 250 GB instead of the CD-Drive. Now there's Mac OSX on both, but I want to install Linux Ubuntu on the HDD. Now there is the problem: "What Bootloader, ...
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Having problems with booting GRUB for EFI on USB stick

Whatever I do, it constantly drops me into the 'bash prompt'. Never displays a menu, nothing. I'm running GRUB on a USB stick formatted as msdos (so, FAT) and when I boot into it, GRUB simply won't ...
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Stuck at booting Ubuntu 12.10 on iMac (late 2012)

So i've installed bootcamp windows on my mac already and created a extra partition for installing ubuntu 12.10. However i've downloaded the image from ubuntu, then burnt the iso to the DVD, boot my ...
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Secret key is not found : gpg

I am using mutt to send email. When I come to send some, I get a message telling 'Enter your keyID', I select one of my gpg owner user's key (for which I generated a pair of key using gpg --gen-key). ...
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Pass arguments to Unix executable in Mac terminal

I'm pretty new to Unix coding and would like to work on a few simple networking projects. I found a few tutorials that are exactly what I am looking for - this one in particular: ...
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can a .screenrc key binding contain variables?

I'm working on a customer .screenrc for Screen and I can't seem to find a way for it to support variables. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish: I want to press ^l, then specify a name, and that ...
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Set refind as default boot loaader on a mac. ( Having trouble saving bless settings )

I have done quite a bit net surfing and have not been able to find a solution to my problem. Here is the background info: The refind boot loader is installed to my EFI partition on the mac (sda1) ...
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OpenSSL and what encryption method to use

I am on OS X 10.8.3, savvy with a command-line and I want to use OpenSSL to start encrypting sensitive information on my MacBook Pro I know that I can use openSSL in a syntax like: openssl enc ...
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fatal: error when closing sha1 file: Permission denied

I am attempting to create a local git repository using a mounted linux drive (via SSH via ExpandDrive) from my mac using GitBox, however when I attempt to make a commit I continually receive this ...
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NFS Server with an OS X client and unmatched UID/GID

I set up an NFS server on arch linux in my LAN. One of the Clients is a Mac OS X 10.6 machine with NFS4.0Alpha support. The user/group ids on the OS X machine are 501/20 and of the corresponding user ...
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What does this line do? [export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=”$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/mysql/lib/]

I'm trying to get MySQL-python working on my mac. I have to put this line in the terminal to fix an error, specifically "_mysql.so image not found". The source of this line tells me I should put it in ...
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i want alice to run any command as root, but can not run commands as any other user

Say I have 2 users - 'alice' and 'bob' and want to allow 'alice' to run any command as root, but not run commands as 'bob' or any other user, am I able to do this, and if so how ? consider this ...
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Can Ubuntu or Windows run OS X?

Can Ubuntu run Mac OS X? I currently run Windows 7 – can I download and run one of the OS X programs?
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Where is the (private key) identity stored when connecting to a server with ssh -i?

I find that once I connect to my Amazon EC2 server using the provided private key via ssh -i /path/to/privkey.pem, subsequent attempts to ssh to the server do not require specifying the path to the ...
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how to close an established network connection in linux and osx

I used to do this in the Windows world with tool called TCPView: just select a established connection (ESTABLISHED), then select "Close Connection". I can't find a way to this on Mac OSX or Linux (I ...
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Any ideas how I could get cpu and disk information from 2 raspberry pis connected on a network and displays them on my mac?

I have 2 raspberry pis on my home network performing different tasks. sometimes, I'd like to see their cpu and disk usage on my mac, without needing to login via ssh. is there a service (can this be ...
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How to create new directory in Netatalk 3.x (AFP) share with group write permission

I have 2 users : userA userB both in the group : studio They are using the same shared folder workdir if userA creates a new folder inside workdir, it looks like : drwxr-sr-x+ 2 userA ...
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sshfs mounting linux directory from mac stopped working

Until this morning, I'd been using sshfs quite nicely to mount a directory from a linux machine in my office. Today, it stopped. Here's my sshfs command: sshfs -osshfs_sync,volname=linux-builder3 ...
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Completely remap keys in Mac OS X

I'd like to remap some keys on my Mac OS X 10.7.5. Those mappings are not that trivial, for example I would like that 'W' key behaves as Return and right 'Apple cmd' behaves as Arrow down. Is that ...
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Mount serial port through ssh connection (Mac/Linux)

I'm working on a MacBook Pro under mountain lion and I would like to mount serial device connected (/dev/ttyUSBx) on a Linux PC under Ubuntu 12.10 through SSH. I tried with sshfs to mount /dev ...
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Locally redirecting domains (like with /etc/hosts) during certain hours of the day

folks. In the interest of upping my productivity, I'd like to selectively block or redirect certain websites in blocks of time during the day. I've already got some sites completely blocked in my ...
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Unable to launch app from /usr/bin

OK, this question may sound too basic, but this doesn't mean I'm not still a bit confused : I'm running OS X 10.6.8 (shouldn't make much difference though, the issue is more like *nix-specific) I ...
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Is it possible to retrive in one file bash's history commands?

I have a lot a commands that I want to run again, but there are a lot of them, and going up to them with the up arrow key is too long. Is it possible to get it in a cat/tail command and pipe it to a ...
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subl does not open in command line

I am unable to open sublime text from the command line in my mac os. Here is what I did so far echo $PATH My path says ...

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