Questions tagged [home-folder]
The folder used to contain user home folders. Usually `/home` on Linux and UNIX, `/Users` on Mac OSX, and `C:\Users` or `C:\Documents and Settings` on Windows (Vista +, XP -).
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How to synchronize the home folder between multiple computers?
I have three computers at home, and would like to have the /home/ folder tree synchronized between the three.
Any files/folders (except those hidden) that are modified/added/removed in one of the ...
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How to track $HOME with git
I would like to track my $HOME dir with git. I've got many other git repos in other subdirs (eg $HOME/projects/repo_1 and so on), which shouldn't be tracked, since they already are.
I have found git-...
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How do I find images based on their numbers in the Excel file?
I have 1,015 images in a folder and this image is classified into seven types and these types are categories of medical diagnoses of skin cancer, and the same images are classified in the Excel file ...
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What does the little squiggly ~ do in Linux?
I have two instances of it being used and I am wondering what each does:
service=~
mv ~/Desktop/Service$version.tgz $service
What does the little squiggly ~ do?
Then, after that that, what would cd ...
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Shared home folders between operating systems
After my hard drive calved yet again in my MacBook Pro, I decided to re-do my dual booting. My goal is to triple boot, with OSX 10.6.8 (installed), Windows 7 Home Premium and a flavour of Linux (...
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Change to user folder from the Command Prompt or PowerShell?
Is there anything that corresponds to the ~ character found in Linux. E.g. CD ~\Downloads to go to the user's download folder from anywhere?
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