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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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Here is a simple script to get the exchange rates from www.bnro.ro/nbrfxrates.xml
#!/bin/bash
# clear the screen
clear
# display an info message
echo "+------------------------------+"
echo "| BNR exchange |"
echo "+------------------------------+"
# check for parameters
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo "Usage: $0 eur ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
In case the sound events are not working in Pidgin you can use this solution:
From the main menu select Tools -> Preferences (or just press the keyboard shortcut CTRL+p).
From Preferences window select the Sounds tab.
At the Sound method section, for Method select the Command option.
In the Sound command field type:
aplay ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
The files on a Linux system can have reading permissions, writing permissions, executing (running) permissions or no permissions for the user that owns that files, groups of users or the rest - users who does not own that files and they are not members of any group.
The usual file types ...
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