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December 2009

You can create line drawings in Vim editor using the Vim DrawIt! plugin. You can draw flow charts, ER diagrams, or any other diagrams that can be created as line drawing inside a text editor using this plugin. 2 Steps to install drawit.vim Step 1: Download latest version of the plugin from vim.org Download the [...]

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Top 10 Electronics Gift Ideas for Geeks

Holiday season is just around the corner. Amazon is giving good discount on lot of electronic items. Here is the list of 10 best selling electronics items. I personally own these except couple of items, which I’ve hinted to my wife as a potential gift item she could buy for me. :). Pick your favorite [...]

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Question: I would like to understand the basics of how to write and execute XQuery program on Linux OS. Can you explain it with a simple example? Answer: In this article, let us review very quickly how to write a basic Hello World XQuery program and execute XQuery program on Linux or Unix OS. 1. [...]

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This article is part of the on-going Unix Sed Tips and Tricks series. In our previous sed articles we learned — sed printing, sed deletion, sed substitute , sed file write, sed multiple commands, sed multi-line operation, and sed manipulate file lines. In our first part of sed tutorial we learned that sed has two [...]

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4 Ways to Kill a Process – kill, killall, pkill, xkill

Kill command is use to send signal to a process or to kill a process. We typically use kill -SIGNAL PID, where you know the PID of the process. There are other ways to effectively kill a process — killing a process by name, killing a process by specifying part of the name, killing a [...]

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