Questions tagged [gnu]

GNU is the software brand for the Free Software Foundation.

GNU is short for GNU is Not Unix - which helped differentiate it from the commercial Unixes that were prevalent at the time.

The projects are available through the gnu.org site.

See also wikipedia for FSF and wikpedia for GNU.

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Unable to use grep regex to search for filename containing period

Ubuntu 14.x. Using grep to search for all files linuxtest-client2 . This includes multiple file extensions (csr, crt, key). When I grep for the middle portion of the filename, "2.", it also returns lines that contain "2" in addition to "2." when…
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Compile Node with GCC v4.9.2

I can't seem to be able to compile Node.js on CentOS 6.6 (64 bits) GCC v4.9.2 $ ./configure Node.js configure error: No acceptable C compiler found! Please make sure you have a C compiler installed on your system and/or consider adjusting the CC…
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gpg --import bind-9.9.4.tar.gz.sha1.asc fails with no valid OpenPGP data found

This is the first time I figured I had better check the keys of the bind software I want to install. So I downloaded what I think is a OpenPGP key ... $ wget ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.9.4/bind-9.9.4.tar.gz.sha1.asc ... then I tried to "import"…
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Why doesn't ps resolve usernames including dashes

On Debian and Ubuntu (probably on other GNU systems too), when ps lists a process' user, it normally resolves its name, but when a process is running as a user which has a dash in its name, the user's numeric ID is shown instead. I think this is…
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How to install GNU build tools from Blastwave

I am trying to install the GNU build tools on Solaris using Blastwave. I have installed CSWgcc4 but when I run gcc or gcc4 I get command not found. There is not any file like gcc gcc4 in /opt/csw/bin. Any idea?
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GNU Mailutils attach file

Is it possible to attach a file to an email from the CLi using mail? I am having trouble finding this feature on the manpage.
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Does tar create point-in-time snapshots?

I know that tar can be used to create a backup. However I wonder if the operation creates point-in-time backups or not. Basically I wonder if it grants consistency if the directory and files are being added / modified / deleted in the meantime.
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How to install GNU make in Windows 7?

I am trying to install GNU make-3.82 on Windows 7. I downloaded the make-3.82.tar.gz setup but it does not have any setup file. There is process given on GNU site . But when I reach to the folder in command prompt and after extraction write…
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