To remove all but the first of a number of duplicate files in a subfolder on Linux, use: yes 1|fdupes -rd <folder> Fdupes Examples 1) fdupes -r ./stuff > dupes.txt Then, deleting the duplicates was as easy as checking dupes.txt and deleting the offending directories. fdupes also can prompt you to delete the duplicates […]
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Happy New Year 2012
Just wanted to say happy new year to everyone. I hope you had a blast and got home safe. I look forward to sharing more of my thoughts , tech updates, most importantly my experiences with all of you. – Jermal
I had this issue where I could not install anything new in my Ubuntu server. After some searching I come to lean that the packages cache seemed to be corrupted # symptom is something such as this root@media:~# apt-get update root@media:~# apt-get install htop Reading package lists… Done Segmentation faulty tree… 50% # and this […]
All user’s desktop: C:UsersPublicDesktop All user’s start menu: C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsStart Menu
The application is called PsShutdown, and is downloadable for free: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ PsShutdown is quite similar to “regular” shutdown – the former accepts the same parameters as the latter, but has various additional features, such as logging off users, locking the work station, and foremost: shutdown of the system when nobody’s logged in, or when the console is locked. Usage […]
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Monitor disk i/o in linux
Wondering how much disk i/o is taking place on my linux server (Ubuntu). I decided it was time to install some tools to help me out. Here is what i am using: iostat iostat makes a snapshot of each available physical volume, and shows the current reads and writes of the volumes. dstat dstat is […]