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Unix Time Hits 1200000000 Today! Watch it happen!

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

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

Man Page Minute – which

WHICH(1) WHICH(1)

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

Man Page Minute – whereis

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

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