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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
If you need to manage your disk or just check the disk space usage of a Linux powered computer, here are some suggestions for both graphical and command line interfaces.
Desktop applications for disk management:
File mangers: in a modern Linux desktop environment checking disk usage is a trivial task. The file ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Here is a quick tip about how to find and replace a text in multiple files, from CLI.
In this example you have some text files (.txt) with urls like "http://example.com, http://another-example.com...". What you are trying to do is to replace all "http" references with "https".
You can find all text files ...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
After installing Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) I have noticed that Midnight Commander, one of the most used CLI file managers available for Linux is unable to preserve settings over different sessions. The solution is quite simple: in order to save it's settings, Midnight Commander requires a ".mc" folder (notice the ...
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
In a Linux CLI environment you can use the "find" command to search for files or folder. In this tutorial I will explain how to find folders having the same name in a directory tree and execute commands on them.
Since the best way to learn is by example, let's consider ...
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
When running a PHP script from command line interface (CLI), a higher memory limit may be required in order for the script to be successfully executed. This can be achieved using the "-d" or "--define" option in the command. According to the manual:
This option allows you to set a custom ...
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