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What is the Unix PATH variable and how do I add to it?
Many programming tutorials ask users to add something to their PATH but don't explain what it is. The existing resources that explain the PATH to users new to the command line are not very good.
What ...
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Which torrent apps work headless (from command line only)?
There's a question on here about what torrent apps work well remotely, but I'm hoping to find out one that works well through a command line interface, preferably with no GUI.
What torrent apps ...
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Best filesystem for use with multiple OS? [duplicate]
what's the best file system to use with windows, osx, and linux that is not fat32.
I need a file system that can share large video files with good performance
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Rsync is resending all files, because files have different timestamp (off by 1 second?)
I am using rsync to backup files from my Mac laptop to a USB drive (exFAT) on my Windows laptop. The USB drive is shared within my home network, and mounted on my Mac.
I noticed a weird problem when ...
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Software to show typed keys on the screen
Just as the capture shows, when you type something using the keyboard, a big label appears at the bottom of the screen showing the keys you typed.
I use Windows & Linux, so I just want to know if ...
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Do I need to enable TRIM in all OS if multibooting?
I multiboot. Does one OS issuing TRIM to my SSD cover all partitions or not?
I have a MacBook Pro (Core2Duo version 2.1 - late 2007) with the HDD replaced with a SSD. I am multi-booting it with ...
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Cross-platform centralized desktop password manager
I have been using KeePass as a desktop password manager on Windows for many years. Love it! However, I am now needing to work on different platforms much of my day (Windows 7, Windows XP, Mac OS X, ...
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How to interpret TCP/ip fingerprint when scanning for OS?
I run the command : nmap -O ip_address to identify the os and I have the result below:
OS:SCAN(V=5.05BETA1%D=8/23%OT=22%CT=1%CU=42341%PV=N%DS=0%DC=L%G=Y%TM=4A91CB
OS:90%P=i686-pc-linux-gnu)SEQ(SP=...
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How do I clear out the ssh-agent entries (on Mac OS X )?
I'm running Mac OS X, and it appears that after SSHing to several machines, using identity files, my 'ssh-agent' builds up a lot of identity / keys and then sometimes offers too many to a ...
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Untar, ungz, gz, tar - how do you remember all the useful options?
I am pretty sure I am not the only one with the following problem: every time I need to uncompress a file in *nix I can't remember all the switches, and end up googling it, which is surprizing ...
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What's an elegant way to copy the creation and modification dates of a file to another file?
How can I set the time information of a file to be the same as of another file on OSX / Linux?
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Moving a file while it's in use -- How does it work?
I've noticed that on non-Windows OS.... ie Linux/Mac I can do things like:
Send a zip to a friend over aim
Delete the file while it's in transfer
And the transfer does not fail.
Or, I can do ...
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What does kill -3 mean?
I know what kill -9 means, but anyone can explain what does kill -3 mean? Is there any special signal it sends out?
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Adding a line into the hosts file, getting permission denied when using sudo - Mac
I'm trying to add a line into the hosts file on my Mac by executing a one line command on the terminal.
I thought this would be easy using sudo, but it returns "permission denied" when I try to add &...
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Highlighting text in the default Windows CHM viewer
How do I set up the default CHM reader in Windows to highlight text? Is this even possible?
When I read ebooks I need to highlight some of the text and it's just not there in the default CHM program....
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