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| bio | website | aass.oru.se/~tpy |
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| location | Örebro, Sweden | |
| age | 49 | |
| visits | member for | 3 years, 9 months |
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Programmer, teacher, reader, writer.
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Mar 22 |
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What is the command to show the disk usage in JFFS2 filesystem(which is a compressed filesystem)? Wikipedia says: There is no practical way to tell how much usable free space is left on a device since this depends both on how well additional data can be compressed, and the writing sequence. |
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Dec 22 |
answered | zero fill vs random fill |
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Nov 27 |
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how to do grep in the man command of linux using xargs? I want to boil some eggs, but I want to do it using the lawnmower. Right. echo grep | xargs man | grep 'insensitive' |
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Nov 27 |
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how to do grep in the man command of linux using xargs? I think you need to clarify what it is that you want to do. Both the command you wrote in the question, and tjameson's suggestion with /, will work to search inside a man page. But do you want to do something else? |
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Oct 21 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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May 15 |
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delete or rename a file with \r as the file name @l0b0: Yes? As I wrote, single-character file names are unusual. It is fairly likely that there are no other such files in the directory, and in that case, this works. Otherwise "rm -i ?" can be used. |
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Apr 3 |
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delete or rename a file with \r as the file name I didn't downvote, but I can guess two reasons: Adding ./ is a useful trick for files starting with a dash, but in this case I can't see why it would help, and your \r syntax (without the dollar sign) doesn't seem to work in bash. |
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Apr 3 |
answered | delete or rename a file with \r as the file name |
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Dec 10 |
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How can I make my computer play dead? Since you don't want a hardware solution, and Windows is asleep, I don't see much you can do. Maybe you can reprogram the BIOS? But perhaps you can train yourself to sleep anyway? I have been sleeping for a number of years in various rooms with one and sometimes two computers, and other things with blinking lights, and even though I am a light sleeper I usually manage to sleep anyway. (And just wait until you get small children. Blinking lights? Ha!) |
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Oct 21 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Oct 21 |
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What's the difference between “shutting down the computer” vs “shutting down the hard disk”? I've seen the term "hard disk" used to mean not the hard disk, but the computer box (in contrast to monitor, keyboard, etc). Perhaps that is part of the confusion? (As Dave wrote in his answer.) |
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Oct 13 |
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Mac OS X: at command not working @Stefan: Yes, and that worked well in the 1980's, when mail was handled locally on the same machine, but my experience (with other types of Unix than Mac OS X) is that nowadays you shouldn't expect to get any mail. |
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Sep 30 |
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Does 5 GB of jpeg images take the same amount of time to download and/or import as 5 GB of plain text? Can't argue with that... |
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Sep 27 |
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How do I minimize idle I/O on Linux to decrease noise? Or a quieter disk, and/or a more isolating case. It's been a long time since I heard any "grinding sounds" from my disks. |
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Sep 19 |
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Why I Am Limited By Wi-Fi Range? Maybe I'm missing something here, but wouldn't that whacking big antenna be used to receive signals too? |
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Aug 13 |
answered | Laptop's internal keyboard as an external one? |
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Jul 20 |
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Can you run one virtual machine inside another? Is it just me, or doesn't this answer seem to be about running multiple virtual machines, not nested ones? |
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May 4 |
awarded | Critic |
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Feb 25 |
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Where are Intel Itanium chips used? Love the "TL;DR" summary, and the "TL;DR" label for it. Is that a common way to use "TL;DR" nowadays? So far I've only seen it used to mean that you actually didn't read something. |
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Feb 7 |
answered | unix command to delete two folders at once? |
