How to prevent automake from overwriting INSTALL?
The cause of the problem was the -f i.e. –force tag to autoreconf. The man page for it states: “consider all files obsolete” … Read more
gnu
Disable GNU Indent backup files
Looking through the man page for indent and the official GNU documentation I only see 2 methods for controlling this behavior. The environment … Read more
Unix mail command: Sort by newest first
To make this as an answer, I’d suggest to use pine. The mail command really isn’t made for interactive use. It’s for bare … Read more
Can I name GNU screen sessions?
If you create new session, you can use screen -S <mysession> In already running session, hit Ctrl-a and type :sessionname <mysession>
What makes a distribution GNU and are there Linux distributions, that are not GNU? [duplicate]
The history of the GNU/Linux terminology goes back to the early 1990s. In 1991 Linus Torvalds began the Linux kernel project out of … Read more
How do I install an older version of GNU make using apt on Ubuntu 16.04?
You could add the sources.list lines for 14.04 to your sources.list file then use apt update; apt install -t=trusty make
How do I prevent gpg from including SHA1?
To answer how do you prevent gpg from includng SHA1, you can use the weak digest parameter by setting –weak-digest SHA1, or alternatively … Read more
Common flag designations and standards for shell scripts and functions
Common flag designations and standards for shell scripts and functions
Obtain WHOIS data field(s) without parsing?
You may use python pip install whois For instance, #!/bin/python import whois print whois.whois(‘www.facebook.com’)[‘city’]
Newlines in BSD sed vs gsed
Newlines in BSD sed vs gsed
