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Philip Kearns
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I first started using computers in 1980 in Kevin Street College, Dublin, getting my first job in 1984 as a systems programmer (C on Motorola 68010) of a proprietary operating system. I stayed in programming until 1992 when I switched to system administration of a mixture of Unix and Unix-like systems. Since then at home and at work I have continued my administration of Unix and Unix-like operating systems: SunOS/Solaris, Linux, HP/UX, MacOS. However I have continued to use and enhance my programming skills and regularly use several computer languages (C, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, awk, sed, Bourne shell, Python) at home and at work.

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How can I enable colored output for OSX diff?
Apr 9, 2013
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What are the methods available to get the CPU usage in Linux Command line?
Jun 20, 2013
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How can I track and log CPU and memory usage on a Mac?
Apr 10, 2013
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How do I find out which package owns a file?
May 28, 2015
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hide GUI that briefly spawns when running a process from the command line
Apr 9, 2013
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How can I split a large file into smaller parts on Windows?
Jun 4, 2013
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How to remove many detached screen sessions in Unix?
Jun 4, 2013
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Linux shell to execute keystroke (CTRL+C)
Jun 10, 2013
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sed, using line number
Jun 23, 2013
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Linux desktop slow, hard disk is lighting but cannot figure the reason from top, iostat and vmstat
Apr 9, 2013
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How can I exit from read-only mode in Vim?
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Can we use shell variables in awk?
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Applescript, POSIX filenames and Mountain Lion