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How can I change the timestamp on a file?
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How to modify timestamp in a dll or exe?
Windows equivalent of the Linux command 'touch'?
How can I set the timestamp for a file via the command-line to a specific date?
My specific situation is Windows 7.
Joseph Hansen
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Give write permissions to multiple users on a folder in Ubuntu
There is a folder that is owned by user tomcat6:
drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat6 tomcat6 69632 2011-05-06 03:43 document
I want to allow another user (ruser) write permissions on document folder. The two users (tomcat6 and ruser) does not belong to same…
TheVillageIdiot
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How do I make Notepad++ delete lines like Eclipse does?
Eclipse has a keyboard shortcut which deletes either the current line (if nothing is selected) or all lines which are part of the currently selected text: Ctrl+D.
Is there a way to make Ctrl+D do the same thing in Notepad++?
The best I could do is…
Matt Ball
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git "ping": check if remote repository exists
I'd like to know whether a remote repository exists. Here's what I came up with:
git ls-remote -h "$REPO_URL" &> /dev/null
Is there any better way?
Jo Liss
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How can I delete all files/subfolders in a given folder via the command prompt?
I would like to delete all files and subfolders using a batch file in Windows 7 and keep the top folder. Basically emptying the folder.
Tony_Henrich
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How can I run an application with command line arguments in Mac OS
Is there any easy way to append command line arguments to an application on a Mac? For example, to run Opera in kiosk mode or to use a different profile in Firefox, I can type
$ /Applications/Opera.app/Contents/MacOS/Opera -kioskmode
$…
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How many threads does ffmpeg use by default?
I see that there's a -threads command line option in ffmpeg. What is the default value of this option?
Edward Dale
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How can I open Google Chrome via command-line with a URL, in incognito mode?
When launching Chrome from the Windows command line I can pass arguments like so:
...>chrome.exe -incognito
I can also pass a URL to open:
...>chrome.exe google.com
Each work fine on their own, but I can't get them to work together.
What I want is…
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How can I make a Windows PC bullet-proof for home users?
I realize that virus-proof on a Windows PC is far fetched, but in the interest of keeping time spent as the "family-tech-support" to a minimum, I am looking for ideas to lock a computer down to the point that it is very hard to collect…
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Email sent to me is addressed to MAIL@MAIL.COM. How is this done?
I was recently sent a scam email, and for giggles I opened it up to read it. Very plain, and not much effort thrown in.
I noticed something peculiar; this email was not addressed to me.
At first, I suspected a CC, or a BCC, but nowhere does it have…
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How to open .dbml in designer mode with VS?
After installing Visual Studio 2017, my LINQ To SQL .dbml definitions open in a XML editor instead of the built in designer.
How do I configure VS to open .dbml in Designer mode instead of XML editor?
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Is it possible to disable smooth movement of the cursor in Office 2013/windows 10?
In office 2013 under windows 10, the text cursor appears to glide across the page smoothly, instead of advancing a character width at a time when I'm typing. I actually find this rather disconcerting, and watching it gives me something akin to…
Sidney
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How do I remove an SSH forwarded port
I used ssh -L 10002:192.168.0.30:10002 192.168.1.135 to establish port forwarding but now I need to remove it.
How do I do this?
user16654
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How to get WYSIWYP (print what you see) in a web browser?
When I print a web page from my browser, I expect to get on paper exactly the content I'm seeing in the browser.
To be precise: I expect the browser to render the same page contents the same way, except on a canvas with infinite height, and then…
reinierpost
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How can I make a custom keyboard layout in OS X?
I recently moved to OS X and I find the system "Russian Phonetic" layout unsatisfying (it's not the one that I'm used to). How can I create a custom layout?
I've read about Ukelele, but the layout I created and copied to Library/Keyboard Layouts…
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