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Invoking vi through find | xargs breaks my terminal. Why?
When invoking vim through find | xargs, like this:
find . -name "*.txt" | xargs vim
you get a warning about
Input is not from a terminal
and a terminal with pretty much broken behaviour afterwards. Why is that?
This question was explicitly about…
DevSolar
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VT-x is not available, but is enabled in BIOS
Recently I started having an issue with VT-x on my Windows 10 running on HP EliteBook. I was using Oracle VirtualBox to run some VMs on it before and VT-x was enabled in BIOS and was working fine.
I started getting VT-x is not available error every…
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How to delete a keyboard layout in Windows 10
I installed Windows 10 on a physically German keyboard, then installed a Window English software keyboard and bought some little stickers to make my keyboard look OK.
However, Windows shows 2 keyboards installed & occasionally toggles back to…
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No USB devices available in VirtualBox
Oracle VirtualBox is unable to list/filter the USB devices attached to my system. As a result, the guest OS is not able to see any USB device either.
This is my configuration:
Host: VirtualBox 5.0.0 r101573 on Ubuntu 14.04, with Oracle…
mguassa
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How to match digits followed by a dot using sed?
I'm trying to use sed to substitute all the patterns with digits followed immediately by a dot (such as 3., 355.) by an empty string. So I try:
sed 's/\d+\.//g' file.txt
But it doesn't work. Why is that?
Mika H.
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How to prevent VLC from automatically resizing its window according to viewed content resolution?
In a case of mine a very high (compared to the video stream) resolution graphical frame (saying "access denied" (when my IP changes)) can appear instead of a video stream, which makes VLC window to resize, getting bigger than my screen is. This…
Ivan
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What is the difference between an Intel i7 and a Xeon quad core processor?
I know the Xeon processors have been around for a long time and are mostly used in servers, but I am curious, why do people not use the Xeons in a high performance desktop?
As far as I know about the best desktop processor out there now is the…
JasonDavis
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How to use spaces in a bash alias name?
I am trying to create an aliases in bash. What I want to do is map ls -la to ls -la | more
In my .bashrc file this is what I attempted:
alias 'ls -la'='ls -la | more'
However it does not work because (I assume) it has spaces in the alias name. Is…
sixtyfootersdude
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How can I create a symbolic link on Windows 10?
I was reading http://web.archive.org/web/20160820000804/https://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/sync-game-saves-across-multiple-computers, and I know junction/mklink worked in Windows 7 as well, but it seems like the junction command has been…
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What's the difference between `docker stop` and `docker kill`?
What's the difference between docker stop and docker kill?
As far as I know, both will stop a running container. Is it that docker stop attempts to stop the process run inside the container in the correct way, while docker kill will send a kill…
Geert-Jan
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How do I synchronise two folders in real-time in Windows 7?
I want to synchronise two folders in real time under Windows 7.
Basically, I want to monitor a folder and synchronise each change (new files, changed files, deleted files) to another drive. It has to be in real time, so it gets synchronised…
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What is a "Magic Packet" for waking a computer?
My wireless adapter (Intel Dual Band Wireless-N 7260) has two settings in Device Manager which I cannot explain.
Wake on Magic Packet
Wake on Pattern Match
After a bit of research, I found this Microsoft Technet article which defines the feature…
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Why are there no odd Windows process IDs?
There are many ways to examine process IDs in Windows.
For example, using the PowerShell command:
ps | select Id, ProcessName | Sort Id | ft -AutoSize
We see the following output:
Id ProcessName
-- -----------
0 Idle …
Peter Hahndorf
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How to disable Chrome extensions without disabling them across multiple synced devices
I use Chrome across 4 different workstations and I have my extensions synced across all of them.
The problem I have is that one of the extensions (Gestures for Chrome) works great if you've got an actual mouse, but on a trackpad on Ubuntu, it just…
growse
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How can I read my hard drive’s SMART status in Windows 7?
How can I read the S.M.A.R.T. state of my HDDs while using Windows 7, either automatically or manually?
Adrian Grigore
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