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Undo OS X terminal window split

I constantly split my terminal windows accidentally by pressing Cmd+D (it's so close to Cmd+F). I have no idea how to undo this. Any ideas?
Peter Berg
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How do I find my user ID and group in Mac OS X?

Trying to run this compand in terminal: sudo chown -R yourid:yourgroup local However, I have no idea what my ID and my group are, or where to find them. Any ideas?
Starkers
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Notepad++ 80 Character Line Marker?

Is there a way I can get a vertical marker line to appear at the 80th character column in notepad++?
speedplane
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Why is dial up so slow?

On a dial-up Internet connection, why is the speed is limited to 56 kbits/s compared to a broadband Internet connection which may carry 10 times as much as dial up through that same telephone line? Is it because the dial up is limited to 56 kbits/s…
Karen
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How to create and format a partition using a Bash script?

Is there any way to create and format a partition using a Bash script? I think it can be done with fdisk but I don't know how to feed commands from the Bash script into the fdisk shell and then exit the fdisk shell. I'd like to create a partition…
GlassGhost
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How can I recursively copy files by file extension, preserving directory structure?

At the Linux command line, I'd like to copy a (very large) set of .txt files from one directory (and its subdirectories) to another. I need the directory structure to stay intact, and I need to ignore files except those ending in .txt.
unclaimedbaggage
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zsh starts incredibly slowly

ZSH takes about a second and a half from creating a new terminal window to being ready. I'm pretty sure that the culprit is compinit. I haven't been able to find good documentation on compinit, but it looks like it should be caching all of the…
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ShellExecute failed (2) error for Notepad++ on Windows 7 64bit

ShellExecute failed (2): Is this command correct? "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe [location of file to edit] I seem to have some issue with RIGHT CLICK > Edit with Notepad ++. This is on a fresh install of Microsoft Windows 7…
Jakub
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Commmand line command to copy entire directory (including directory folder) to another directory

using the command line, I'd like to copy one directory to another. For example there is directory C:/test and C:/test2. I'd like to copy C:/test into C:/test2 so that the result will be C:/test2/test Everything I've found so far will only copy the…
agezna
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How do I update all fields in a Word document?

I want a way of updating all fields in a Word 2013 document. (If it works in other versions, all the better; I originally had this problem with Word 2007, and nothing seems to have changed since then.) This includes cross-references, page numbers,…
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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Keyboard shortcut to pull Google Chrome tab into its own window

Is there a keyboard short cut, or extension, that lets you rip a tab into a new window in Google Chrome instead of using the mouse?
Stephen
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How can I get (g)Vim to display the character count of the current file?

I like to write tutorials and articles for a programming forum I frequent. This forum has a character limit per post. I've used Notepad++ in the past to write posts and it keeps a live character count in the status bar. I'm starting to use gVim…
OwenP
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What sense does it make for "sharpness" to be adjustable on a monitor?

Modern monitors often have a "sharpness" setting. But I don't really understand how it makes sense for such a setting to exist. The software asks the monitor to display a particular pattern of 32-bit RGB values, right? i.e. The OS might ask the…
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How can I filter out unique results from grep output?

In linux, I can grep a string from a file using grep mySearchString myFile.txt. How can I only get the result which are unique?
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How does Router know where to forward packet

If several computers with local addresses (192.168.0.#) are connected to a router and each computer opens a web browser and requests a page over HTTP, when these TCP:80 packets are sent out, the router switches the local address with the static IP…
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