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How can I sort du -h output by size

I need to get a list of human readable du output. However, du does not have a "sort by size" option, and piping to sort doesn't work with the human readable flag. For example, running: du | sort -...
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Bypass openvpn for particular ip

My desktop machine runs Trisquel GNU/Linux 6.0 (which is basically a libre version of Ubuntu 12.04), and I use OpenVPN to connect to a commercial VPN provider for internet access. It currently routes ...
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Sending mail from command line if body not empty

I'd like to write a simple script that alerts me if a log changes. For this I'm using grep to find the lines I'm interested in. Right now it works like this: grep line /var/log/file | mail -s Log ...
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glibc 2.7 on CentOS 5.5?

I'm trying to run a program that requires glibc 2.7, but I'm running it on CentOS 5.5. Is there any way to do this? I can't upgrade to CentOS 6.
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Issues while untaring in Linux- tarball created from Solaris

I am getting an error- Unknown file type 'A', extracted as normal file while un-tarring a set of files which has acl permissions set. I had created the tar file in solaris as tar -cpfv ...
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gpg --import bind-9.9.4.tar.gz.sha1.asc fails with no valid OpenPGP data found

This is the first time I figured I had better check the keys of the bind software I want to install. So I downloaded what I think is a OpenPGP key ... $ wget ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.9.4/bind-9....
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