Archive for April 2009

Why aren’t my files listed in order?

Posted on April 20, 2009, 1:00 am, by Jeremy Pavlov, under introductory, ls, nautilus, suse.

A friend of mine was looking for a file using Nautilus while logged in as root on a SLE server.  He was looking for a particular file that started with a capital “S”, and simply could not seem to find it.  He thought he was losing his mind, because he was certain it was there [...]

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What ever happened to unix2dos in SLES?

Posted on April 6, 2009, 1:43 am, by Jeremy Pavlov, under intermediate, recode, suse, unix2dos.

Why did they take unix2dos away from the SLES distribution and all standard (read: supported) repositories?  Honestly, I don’t know.  I use it all the time.  I’m pretty sure it used to be included in SLES, and it’s still in Opensuse and other distros.  Ironically, the complementary dos2unix is available in SLES as needed.  Hmm… [...]

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