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Linux Hater's Blog
I just learned about the Linux Hater's Blog via Miguel De Icaza's blog. Super funny and super true. Users need software that works. I guess that's why the only companies run by programmers make software for programmers.
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Using less and grep with logs
Recently I've been doing a decent amount of debugging a database conversion process and looking at log files on the Red Hat servers at work. This has meant looking at some rather big (10 or so megabytes) log files. Normally I just fire up vim...
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Backup with rsync
I wanted to have a simple incremental backup system I could use on my machine
to backup to an external drive so I came across
this post on
Benno’s blog. Basically it involves using rsync
with the --link-dest option to compare files you are backing...
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cp interactive copy
Is it just me or has the behavior of cp in linux distributions changed recently? cp is non-interactive by default so a lot of people, myself included, set an alias to include the -i flag so that cp was interactive by default.
alias cp=cp -i
But...
