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Redirect stdout and stderr to same file

I keep forgetting the correct syntax….

% script 2>& logfile

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More unix find tips

There are so many little things to remember in this command that I always have to lookup what switches to use. So here are a few ways of using find

To find all files modified in the last 24 hours (last full day) in current directory and its sub-directories:

find . -mtime -1 -print

Flag -mtime -1 option [...]

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Copy and paste in Vi/Vim

This is a neat trick to know and saves a lot of time:

Go to the beginning of the line where you want to start copying.
Make sure you are in the command mode. (Hit ESC).
Type “ma”. Which means, you are marking the spot with “a”.
Go to the line till where you want to copy.
type y`a (yank [...]

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Tips on unix find

Here is a nice tip on unix find..

$ find . cpio -pdumv /path/to/destination/dir

the files found by find are passed into cpio and it copies the files with the same permissions to the destination directory.

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linux tip on tar

If you untar a package, and it makes a mess of your directory because the packager didn’t include the files in his tarball in a directory, you can use% rm `tar ftz package.tar.gz`

to quickly get rid of those cluttering files.

% rm `tar ft package.tar`

does the same thing.

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