None of the other free email providers has anything even close to Gmail Labs. This is a testing ground for the creative Gmail engineers to release their new features for users to play around. Despite gmail’s following disclaimer on these lab features, they are rock solid and can be used very reliably. In this article, [...]
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In this article let us review how to correct spelling of a word, identify meaning for a word, identify antonym for a word right from Unix / Linux command line. 1. Lookup Words Beginning with a Given String Using Look Command Look-up the correct spelling for a word using Unix look command as shown below. [...]
Question: What is the reason my cron job does not gets executed when i use percentage ‘%’ in my cron job. How to solve this issue ? Answer:‘%’ is the new line specifier in cron command. Thus when you use % it is interpreted as a new line in the cron job. Let us see [...]
A while back we reviewed 15 practical find command examples (Part I). Find command can do lot more than just searching for files based on name. In this article (Part 2), let us discuss 15 advanced examples of find command including — finding files based on the time it is accessed, modified or changed, [...]
Imagine the situation where you are working on a huge project and the project manager uses Windows and created a project document using Microsoft word 2007 document and send it to the whole team including you. You can call the project manager and ask him to convert it to txt or pdft and send it [...]
Renaming a single file is very simple task for Linux user. But renaming multiple files in group may not be a straight forward task. In this article, let us review 3 different methods to rename multiple files together. Method 1. Use Rename Linux Command Using rename command you can rename group of files. The syntax [...]
An experienced Linux sysadmin knows the importance of running the routine maintenance jobs in the background automatically. Linux Cron utility is an effective way to schedule a routine background job at a specific time and/or day on an on-going basis. This article is part of the on-going Productivity Tips For Geeks series. In this article, [...]
You may be using Google search multiple times per day to locate something on the web. Learning how to use Google search effectively can boost your productivity instantly. This article is part of the on-going Productivity Tips for Geeks. In this article let us review 15 awesome google search tricks that will improve the [...]
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