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Who is the “author” of a file (Gnu “ls” manual)
In the manual for Gnu "ls," I see this:
--author
with -l, print the author of each file
Does anybody know what the “author” of a file means in this context?
This is (maybe?) not the ...
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How do I set current Unix time in milliseconds?
Possible Solution
date --set="2011-12-07 01:20:15.962" && date --rfc-3339=ns
Original Question
I can get the date with milliseconds like so:
date +"%S.%N"
date --rfc-3339=ns
According ...
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Is it possible to change the directory in which useradd creates its lockfiles?
Useradd creates lock files in /etc/ directory. Is it possible make it create them somewhere else?
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Upgrade coreutils on CentOS 4.8 server
I'd like to use the option oflag=append for a dd operation to append content to a file. This is to increase the size of the underlying file for a loop device in a case where creating a new larger file ...
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Difference between UnxUtils and GNU CoreUtils
I am a Windows user who wants programs like grep and sed along with other utilities like ls, cut etc in my command prompt. I came across 2 packages which would accomplish this
UnxUtils
GNU ...
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Problems compiling coreutils-8.5 on Solaris 5.10 on Intel platform
I am having trouble compiling coreutils-8.5 on Solaris 5.10 on the Intel platform using cc.
Firstly I had the following error during ./configure:
checking whether <wchar.h> uses 'inline' ...
