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How to resume wget mirroring from a different location?
I am out of space in my home folder , where iam currently mirroring this site for the pupose of a cygwin installation in my windows machine using wget from my linux machine.
i am aware that i can ...
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How do I create shortcuts to Cygwin programs in Windows?
I would like to create a Windows shortcut to launch Linux applications through Cygwin. The Cygwin X server is installed and running but I can't figure out a way to do it.
I'd like to have shortcuts/...
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Recovering data after errant copy command?
I meant to do this:
cp -rp -i /cygdrive/c/folder /cygdrive/e/anotherfolder/
But I accidentally hit enter after this:
cp -p -i /cygdrive/c/folder /cygdrive/e/anotherfolder/
And now the contents of ~...
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Cygwin 'grep' in files takes forever
I tried using Cygwin to emulate some cool Linux search feature, and when I do grep in files (12 text files - not big) it takes forever. I used
grep -rne word
I could find this word faster manually (...
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