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  A simple tutorial on Linux nohup command

In our daily work, there might be need to run some important program for hours or even days without being abruptly terminated. In such case, we may want to run the program with command nohup.nohup is the abbreviation of no hangup, i.e, don't hang up or terminate the process. This command will tell the process to ignore the system HUP signal. The HUP signal will be emitted when the terminal is exited or disconnected. Normally process will abort its execution when receiving this signal. Basic SyntaxThe basic syntax for nohup isnohup command argumentsornohup optionsIf you want to know more u...

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  Find files by size in Linux

In Linux systems, you may encounter a situation where there is no enough space on the system while you are trying to install some new packages or writing some data. In this case, you may want to clear some unneeded files. A frequent need will be find the largest files in the system so that they can be deleted first and disk space can be released quickly.In this post, we will show a simple command to find files by size so that we know what files are taking the specified space on the system,This command to be introduced is find. Let's say we want to find the files which are larger than 500M, we ...

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  Linux的早期岁月

我的名字是 Lars Wirzenius,我曾经见证了Linux的起点。Linux现在是一个全球成功的操作系统,但它的开始却非常谦逊。这些是我对Linux最早的日子、它的创造以及它走向今天的记忆。我于1988年秋季开始在赫尔辛基大学攻读计算机科学,并认识了 Linus Torvalds,他也是当年计算机科学专业的新生之一,而且和我一样说瑞典语。在那个学年的末尾,我们得到了一台Unix服务器的访问权限,然后我无意中发现了Usenet,这个讨论系统,因为我误将rm打成了rn,即Usenet阅...

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