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Question: What is the reason my cron job does not gets executed when i use percentage ‘%’ in my cron job. How to solve this issue ?Answer:‘%’ is the new line specifier in cron command. Thus when you use % it is interpreted as a...
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As part of the contest that was conducted a while back, I got around 200 responses from the geeky readers who choose their favorite Linux text editor. Based on this data, the top spot in the best Linux text editor goes to… Vi / Vim...
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A while back we reviewed 15 practical find command examples (Part I). Find command can do lot more than just searching for files based on name. In this article (Part 2), let us discuss 15 advanced examples of find command including — finding...
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Question: How can I delete empty directory, directory with files and sub directories in Linux / Unix ? Also, how can I use an alias effectively for rm and rmdir command? Answer: You can delete empty directory using rmdir command, or directory with...
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Question: How do I find out the major and minor number of my block device / partition / mount points / SAN disk / filesystem? Why do you need to know major and minor device number?Sometimes you may need to know the major and minor number of devices for...
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