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Little clarity needed about: PC and Mac and Unix
I've always thought that a PC and A Mac were two different computing platforms, not just with in their operating systems (Windows & Mac OS) but different from hardware to thier respective internal ...
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Double directory separators
I wanted to ask about double directory separators, I'm using windows 7 and as i checked there is not problem for example with this string ////\\\//\\\/\ to be used as a directory separator, The ...
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Is Cygwin the easiest way to learn about UNIX/LINUX without dual-booting Linux on Windows Machine? [closed]
As the title suggests, I have installed cygwin on my Windows machine in order to try and learn about UNIX shells and kernels, and how to interact with them. I know that it is pseudo UNIX/LINUX as the ...
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How can I log all my command-line activity?
I just had a Heisenbug that completely disappeared on me. I'm convinced that something funny must have happened when I compiled my program several days or a week ago.
But sadly, my Windows (MINGW) ...
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Is the Windows kernel considered an "application"?
If it is true that all Windows files with the ".exe" file extension are considered "applications", is NTOSKRNL.exe, the Windows kernel, an "application", or is this an exception to the rule? What ...
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How to call and launch EXE from linux \unix side?
I have a build process that runs on Linux and UNIX hosts. It's script -based, and at the end of the process I'd like to run an EXE file (that can run on Windows only... yes I know it's quite weird but ...
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How to create Unix tarball with various file permissions inside on a Windows box?
Could anyone enlighten me on how can I create a regular Unix tarball archive (e.g., tar.gz or tar.bz2) on a Windows box in a way that will mark some files in that archive as "executable" (e.g., with ...
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Linux, Unix, Windows... Is access/modify time relative to system time?
I have searched, but can't find the right terminology.
For example, if today was Friday, and a file was modified on Wednesday, then when I change the system time to Saturday, does the file's mtime ...
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what is the linux cmd to get the SID
If I want to get the SID of a particular user in windows. I would run the following cmd from a DOS windows:
cmd> wmic useraccount get name,sid
example output> kehelly S-1-5-21-3623811015-...
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Data permission: what if adding only write permision to a file?
What if a user got only write access to a file? Is he able to read the file or only to "write"? However, if you can write, you can also read, so this doesn't make sense?
The question is for Unix-like ...
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Samba jobs disappear from Windows spooler
I searched for similar issues to no avail, yet I have multiple systems exhibiting the same bizarre behavior.
Samba jobs printed to Windows printer shares arrive at the Windows workstation, but then ...
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Cygwin file and directory user and group
I use Cygwin as my main development environment on both my home and work computers.
In order to share files between the two computers, I use Dropbox, which is installed in the following folder on ...
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Copying From Windows to NFS: Can The Timestamps Be Preserved?
We have a Linux server that has NFS shares. Some Windows hosts (XP & 7) connect to it via Services for UNIX. I've been told the behavior is different from XP to 7 in terms of file creation dates ...
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Remove middle folder? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Linux: How to move all files from current directory to upper directory?
I have foo/bar/myfiles and I want foo/myfiles.
I was trying to git clone a repo into foo, but it made ...
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Send a file from Windows to Unix as a nightly schedule
Let's say I have a common directory on a Windows server such as: \\servername\location\common. During the day, any user can come and add/remove files to that Windows directory.
How would I setup a ...
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