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The mount command, and other filesystem-related stuff.
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This is just a tags placeholder for this concept.
diff is the commandline thing; important for patch.
-u switch. (advised by Working on Free Software)Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch/
Applies changes to one or more original files based on information originally provided by the diff program. Let just the smaller changes between versions be distributed without needing to send the whole new version of a file.
Disambiguation: cats, the animals.
todo – create a real page
A Linux commandline thingy which outputs a textfile. It’s most frequently used to push a file through a pipe so that another program can act on it.
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Software > Linux tools >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/
egrep and pgrep.ack replaces it.
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Software > Linux tools >
(on Wikipedia)
http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/
vi is a textmode editor. It’s so bad even the author regrets it.
For some fucking reason, Linux distributions almost all include it by default.
The only editor I know of which can handle huge files. So horribly horrible though. =(
Ruby-capable, I hear.
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Software > Linux tools >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/
Generally used to do search/replace on strings, but also in text files.