ASCII is the most fundamental character set that has been around since the early days of command line interfaces. There are 128 (0 – 127) most basic ASCII characters such as a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and all the printable punctuations you can type out by a single strike of your keyboard. As all ASCII characters have …
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You can login to Gmail.com at here: http://gmail.google.com/ I have been a user of Gmail for almost 6 years. I have some tips on using Gmail.com to share with you that may make your life easier. You can sign up and get an Gmail account at here: http://www.gmail.com. It’s completely free. Enable keyboard shortcuts When …
You can export any MySQL database or table into an XML file by the exporting capabilities of phpMyAdmin, the web interface of MySQL. The problem with this approach, however, is that with large tables, you may have to manually export the table more than once by sections into several sequential XML files. A better approach …
To delete all content in any directory, including all sub-directories and files, I’ve been using this: rm -rf somedir/* If it is to delete all content of the current directory: rm -rf * However, it turns out ‘rm -rf’ doesn’t remove hidden files such as .htaccess (Files with a name starting with a dot are …
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The ‘find’ command in Linux systems searches through a directory and return files that satisfy certain criteria. For instance, to find a file that contains the string ‘needle text’ in the ‘mydocs’ directory: find mydocs -type f -exec grep -l “needle text” {} \; The problem of this approach is that it would search through ALL files …
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