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Explaining to others has always been a great approach to internalize valuable information. So here is this shell command that I have discovered thanks to an exchange on LQ. You can read the discussion here: sed-less word wrap in Bash.
What it does: fold wraps lines of text after a given position and at a given symbol. This is lot like wrapping in a text-editor or what your mail-client does, when you configure a maximum line-length for incoming and outgoing email. You could, for example,...
These machines make me aggressive. I am the most dangerous when operating my chainsaws, not because of the ugly and awfully destructive tool, but because of how it alters my state of mind.
When my smaller chainsaw for one-hand operation once began to bounce on a piece of wood, than cut through my gloves and scratched my fingernail, the pain came from the blow,...
Posted 04-19-2016 at 07:06 AM byMichael Uplawski Updated 09-12-2017 at 12:33 PM byMichael Uplawski(a different title for the second script; wording improved)
After a few years that I have made only good experience with paco and then porg, I feel like recommending the tool to everybody who wants to or has to install software differently than by using the utilities, which are usually provided by a Linux-distribution.
The tool was originally developed for Linux From Scratch, paco (PACkage Organizer) was the old name of what is now called porg for Package ORGanizer. porg protocols changes to the file-system as well as some of the properties...
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