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Executing a command with input from find output

Files on Linux can be found in quite a few different ways, two of the more common commands are find and locate. Personally I tend to use find more so over locate due to the higher search-ability and actions available …

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List the last 10 files in a directory and order

Listing of files is a common procedure day in day out when on the command line and more often than not you will want to list the last X amount of files. Doing so is pretty simple: ls -ltr | …

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Installing CentOS 5.4 over HTTP

Installing a distro, in this case CentOS over HTTP is a good learning experience however, beyond learning it can have some great benefits: – You can boot from small media, for example a 100Mb USB drive – You get all …

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