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How to recursively delete directory from command line in windows?
What is the windows equivalent of rm -r [directory-name]?
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Native alternative to wget in Windows PowerShell?
I know I can download and install the aformentioned library (wget for Windows), but my question is this:
In Windows PowerShell, is there a native alternative to wget?
I need wget simply to retrieve a file from a given URL with HTTP GET. For…
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If I know the PID number of a process, how can I get its name?
If I have the PID number for a process (on a UNIX machine), how can I find out the name of its associated process?
What do I have to do?
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"Show desktop" keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X
I am using a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5. Is there a similar function to "show desktop" (shortcut is WIN+D) on a Mac?
It should hide all applications and show a clean desktop.
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Rebooting Ubuntu on Windows without rebooting Windows?
Is it possible to reboot the Ubuntu sub-system without restarting my system?
I tried to use the shutdown command after installing some updates, but that doesn't seem to be an option here.
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How do I get the distinct/unique values in a column in Excel?
If I have a column with values, and I want to find out what distinct values are in there (not how many - but the actual distinct values), how can I do that?
In SQL Server I would do something like
SELECT Distinct(MyColumn) FROM MyTable
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Keyboard language keeps changing in Windows 10
So I recently did a clean install of Windows 10 English. I configured it to have English UI language but Norwegian keyboard. I have several problems with that setup:
The keyboard language keeps switching to English constantly
I can't see the…
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How to force refresh without cache in Google Chrome?
Does Chrome have an equivalent to Firefox's Ctrl+F5 refresh? I can't seem to find one.
I changed my gravatar last night, and I can see the new one in Firefox after a Ctrl+F5 refresh, but Chrome seems to be stubbornly hanging on to the old Gravatar.…
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How do I view, add or edit Cookies in Google Chrome?
I wish to view, add and edit the cookies of my google chrome. Can anyone suggest to me a way to do it?
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How can I clear a single site from the cache in Firefox?
In Firefox, I occasionally need to clear my cache to fix a website. But clearing the entire cache seems like extreme overkill. Is there any way to just clear the one site from my cache?
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How does one swap two panes in Tmux?
I have two panes in horizontal split. I'd like to have the pane currently on the right to be on the left in the window. I'm not talking about moving the focus (Ctrl+B o). How do I achieve this?
'left pane' <--> 'right pane'
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Switching back to last *used* tab on Chrome
How do I toggle back to the last tab used in Chrome on Mac? Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab navigates the tabs in order. But I want to switch back and forth between two tabs similar to how how Cmd-Tab switches between the last two apps. There's a way…
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How to read ext4 partitions on Windows?
Is there a way to read ext4 partitions from Windows? If so, what can I do?
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Menu select item stuck on screen after context or command menu has closed
Periodically when I select a menu command, the label or selected option gets "stuck" on screen and won't go away. I can close all open applications, including whichever one I was using when it got stuck, but it still won't go away.
In the…
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What's the difference between 127.0.0.1 and 0.0.0.0?
I understand that 127.0.0.1 points to localhost, and so does 0.0.0.0 (correct me if I'm wrong). So, what's the difference between 127.0.0.1 and 0.0.0.0?
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