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GNU/Linux

GNU/Linux is spreading. Let’s see what’s the latest in there.

There are 28 posts tagged GNU/Linux (this is page 3 of 6).

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How to empty a file without deleting and recreating it?

Was working with log files and wanted a quick way to empty them and recreate them. rm and touch would do it, but found something simpler: [code]cat /dev/null > filename[/code] As simple as that!

in Technology | 9 Comments

Cron for Windows

Wanted to deploy an application on a Windows server. The application had features that would work only if cron was setup to call a particular php page at fixed intervals. Doing this on Linux is a job of two minutes. But I did not know how to do cron on Windows. And this is something […]

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Recursively delete all .svn folders

Needed to quickly delete all .svn folders and files within them from a machine where svn client was not setup. Here’s how: #!/bin/sh echo “recursively removing .svn folders from” pwd rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn` Taken from: Any Example

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Firefox Event featured in Linux Magazine

On 21st July, we organized the Mozilla Indic Developers meet at HBCSE. The latest Linux Magazine carries a note about the event. It was our honor to organize the event! Thanks to Kartik and HBCSE for making it possible! And thanks to Sankarshan for sending the link!

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Tip: Combining multiple mp3 files into one

I had multiple mp3 audio tracks of a lecture. They worked fine in iTunes since I could create a playlist and tracks would play one after another. I moved the tracks to my phone to listen to them on the move, but the phone has some weired sorting method that played the tracks in wrong […]

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