*nix commands I can’t do without
Unix/Linux/*nix survival 101 Let me start with the obvious: I’m definitely not a unix guru by any means. I do however use it on a daily basis for basic build/development oriented tasks, so I know enough to get by. Since my friend just installed his first ever linux distribution (CentOS, Huzzah!), I thought I’d write [...]
In: Fedora · Tagged with: Fedora, linux, unix
Untar a file
Short and sweet: tar -zxvf foo.tar this will extract the tar’d files into the current working directory. Most tar balls will ask you to do something like the following in order to build the contents for your target platform: ./configure make make install Some builds will require some kind of different variant of the above [...]
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