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roxpace

Finally the new FreeBSD 9.0 is out

I bet not so many of you here are using FreeBSD, I who am an old time UNIX freak loves it and now a new release of this operating system :) more

raghu

Dennis Ritchie, we will miss you. The first programming book that I ever bought was co-authored by Ritchie.

Jon

A nice tribute to Dennis Ritchie

Like Bell Labs itself, Ritchie's public legacy is not a fraction of the legacy of those who built and innovated on top of his work. But his more

arpcefxl
snoodking1

Steve Jobs dies, everyone notices, Dennis Ritchie dies, Who?

Not saying that Steve Jobs isn't one of the most brilliant men of our time, but Dennis Ritchie was the co creator of C and Unix languages more

arpcefxl

Favorite shell commands

remove blank lines from a file:
sed -i '/^$/d' filename more

arpcefxl

Favorite shell commands

Sort directory contents by size from largest to smallest:
du -sk * | sort -nr more

Troy
arpcefxl

Favorite unix command line tools - recursive copy preserve links

cd to the directory you want to copy
tar cfp - . | (cd /destinationdir; tar xfp - ) more

uri

Lots of Top

Top is a great Unix command to track server performance. I've never seen so many on one screen. This is all for Chime.In

redacciones

Los muertos que la prensa ignora

Hace sólo unas horas que los grandes medios de comunicación españoles han comenzado a publicar la noticia del fallecimiento de Dennis more

mahfuznasrin
arpcefxl

More favorite shell commands

To copy an entire directory from one place to another, including preserving links and permissions/ownership:
tar cfp - <source dir> | (cd more

arpcefxl

More nice unix commands: average a file of numbers

If you have a file with a number on each line that you want to average, use the following: awk '{sum+=$1}END{print sum/NR}' filename<cr> more

shadi_hania
mahfuznasrin
arpcefxl

Who remembers nethack?

This was indeed a GPA wrecker. I actually won it twice (although I have to admit I did save my game a couple times). Anybody else play more

philip

Most Useless Use of a Cat Awards

You'll either be pleasantly surprised or, more likely, disappointed and confused.
more

uberMark
DeMyztikX

Two Months

So it's been two months since one of the most important men in computers died. Wow. We'll miss you Dennis Ritchie. Of course he's not the more

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