Unix Time Hits 1200000000 Today! Watch it happen!

January 10, 2008 on 3:54 pm | In ManPageMinute, Techspeak, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Today, Unix and derivative operating systems all over the world will have their clocks reach 1200000000. This is the number of seconds which have elapsed since the “dawn of time” (in Unix terms, anyway), or 1970.

If you want to watch your clock flip, just issue this command

watch -n1 date +”%s”

Man Page Minute – find

December 6, 2007 on 8:44 pm | In ManPageMinute | Comments Off

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find – search for files in a directory hierarchy Continue reading Man Page Minute – find…

Man Page Minute – which

November 6, 2007 on 9:40 am | In ManPageMinute, Techspeak | Comments Off

WHICH(1) WHICH(1)

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which – locate a command Continue reading Man Page Minute – which…

Man Page Minute – whereis

October 30, 2007 on 1:39 pm | In ManPageMinute, Techspeak | Comments Off

WHEREIS(1) WHEREIS(1)

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whereis – locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command Continue reading Man Page Minute – whereis…

Man Page Minute – updatedb

October 19, 2007 on 11:03 am | In ManPageMinute | Comments Off

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updatedb – update the slocate database Continue reading Man Page Minute – updatedb…

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