11-25-2011
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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
can anyone explain me difference between tar and ufsdump commands.............and also i wd like to know the difference between incremental and differential backup.........
thx in advance (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: girish_shukla
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
What is the difference between:
cd /tmp
tar -cf - *.txt |gzip > tmp_txt.tar.gz
and
cd /tmp
mknod pipe p
gzip < pipe > /tmp/tmp_txt1.tar.gz &
tar -cf pipe *.txt
Apart from the fact that we have to create the pipe file manually, is there any difference in the performance of the two?... (5 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am trying to launch an ogg movie from a pdf file which has been produced with pdflatex and
\movie
{\centerline{\includegraphics
{grafiques_xerrades/un_manolo_amb_camera.pdf}}}
{hlims_xerrades/XocCumuls.ogg}
The switch "externalviewer" makes kpdf launch the default... (5 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a directory with file types ending .log, .mml, .gll, .dll . How can I grep expressions only in say the .log files? (3 Replies)
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5. Programming
If I want to declare an array of structures in C and have the number of items in that array to correspond to the items of an enumeration, is there a way to access the maximum value in the enumeration when declaring the array?
For instance:
typedef struct
{
various fields....
} ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: cleopard
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6. What is on Your Mind?
On another simple topic, multiple choice answers OK ( you can pick more than one or suggest others - we will add your suggestions to the poll ).
What Types of Food Do You Like The Most? (27 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
the following excludes certain directories successfully
cp -r probe/!(dir) /destination
I want to exclude certain file types and tried unsuccessfully
cp -r probe/!(*.avi) /destination (2 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Can I please have some ideas on how to do a recursive grep with certain types of files? The file types I want to use are *.c and *.java.
I know this normally works with all files.
grep -riI 'scanner' /home/bob/ 2>/dev/null
Just not sure how to get it to work *.c and *.java files. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
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