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Argument list too long error for rm, cp, mv commands

I have several hundred PDFs under a directory in UNIX. The names of the PDFs are really long (approx. 60 chars). When I ...

April 22, 2022
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What are the dark corners of Vim your mom never told you about? [closed]

As it currently stands, this question is not a good fit for our Q&A format. We expect answers to be supported by facts, ...

April 20, 2022
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Use grep –exclude/–include syntax to not grep through certain files

I’m looking for the string foo= in text files in a directory tree. It’s on a common Linux machine, I have bash shell: ...

April 19, 2022
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How can I convert a Unix timestamp to DateTime and vice versa?

There is this example code, but then it starts talking about millisecond / nanosecond problems. The same question is on MSDN, Seconds since ...

April 18, 2022
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Given two directory trees, how can I find out which files differ by content? [closed]

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April 18, 2022
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What is the difference between a symbolic link and a hard link?

Recently I was asked this during a job interview. I was honest and said I knew how a symbolic link behaves and how ...

April 18, 2022
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How to get full path of a file?

Is there an easy way I can print the full path of file.txt ? file.txt = /nfs/an/disks/jj/home/dir/file.txt The <command> dir> <command> file.txt should ...

April 18, 2022
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How can I exclude directories from grep -R?

I want to traverse all subdirectories, except the “node_modules” directory. 14 s 14 Recent versions of GNU Grep (>= 2.5.2) provide: --exclude-dir=dir which ...

April 17, 2022
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How do I list all cron jobs for all users?

Is there a command or an existing script that will let me view all of a *NIX system’s scheduled cron jobs at once? ...

April 17, 2022
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How do I pause my shell script for a second before continuing?

I have only found how to wait for user input. However, I only want to pause so that my while true doesn’t crash ...

April 17, 2022
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