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Exclude .svn directories from grep [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: How can I exclude directories from grep -R? (14 answers) Closed 5 years ago. When I grep ...

June 3, 2022
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Make install, but not to default directories?

I want to run ‘make install’ so I have everything I need, but I’d like it to install the things in their own ...

June 3, 2022
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How to use sed to remove the last n lines of a file

I want to remove some n lines from the end of a file. Can this be done using sed? For example, to remove ...

June 2, 2022
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How to create a file with a given size in Linux?

For testing purposes I have to generate a file of a certain size (to test an upload limit). What is a command to ...

June 2, 2022
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“/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz”

I am trying to compile Android source code under Ubuntu 10.04. I get an error saying, /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz Can you please ...

June 2, 2022
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Get yesterday’s date in bash on Linux, DST-safe

I have a shell script that runs on Linux and uses this call to get yesterday’s date in YYYY-MM-DD format: date -d "1 ...

June 2, 2022
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How to remove all .svn directories from my application directories

One of the missions of an export tool I have in my application, is to clean all .svn directories from my application directory ...

June 2, 2022
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How do I force detach Screen from another SSH session?

I had Screen running inside an SSH session. Terminal froze. After restarting Terminal, that Screen session still thinks it’s attached. Maybe it is. ...

June 2, 2022
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Viewing full output of PS command

when I run ps -aux command on my linux server, to which I connected using putty, few processes are too long to fit ...

June 2, 2022
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Can linux cat command be used for writing text to file?

Is something like this: cat "Some text here." > myfile.txt Possible? Such that the contents of myfile.txt would now be overwritten to: Some ...

June 2, 2022
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