Jun 23, 2011 · The definition of unix time and the epoch date went through a couple of changes before stabilizing on what it is now. But it does not say why exactly 1/1/1970 was chosen in the end.

Sep 2, 2015 · I am wondering if its possible to list who all modified the file with course of time. I am aware that stat or ls -lrt will give the last user who modified the file. But I want to find out if it is

I want to read a file and save it in variable, but I need to keep the variable and not just print out the file. How can I do this? I have written this script but it isn't quite what I needed: #!/b...

What is the fastest, easiest tool or method to convert text files between character sets? Specifically, I need to convert from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-15 and vice versa. Everything goes: one-liners in your

Is there a file or menu that will let me change the settings on how to deal with line endings? I read there are 3 options: Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style Git will convert LF to CRLF when

Aug 21, 2015 · The only simple and safe way to modify an input file using bash tools, is to use a temp file, eg. sed -i uses a temp file behind the scenes (but to be robust sed needs more). Some of the …

Is there a command or an existing script that will let me view all of a *NIX system's scheduled cron jobs at once? I'd like it to include all of the user crontabs, as well as /etc/crontab, and what...

Is there any way to create a cron expression for not running the job at all? I though of using this expression : 0 0 0 1 1 ? 3099 ...which will practically do the job as it will run on year 3099,...

I am using below command in Unix environment to connect to Oracle database: sqlplus test/test@' (DESCRIPTION= (ADDRESS_LIST= (ADDRESS= (PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=hostname ...

Feb 28, 2011 · Unix: How to delete files listed in a file Asked 14 years, 9 months ago Modified 1 year, 4 months ago Viewed 195k times