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Looking for files NOT owned by someone

I'm looking to recursively look through directories to find files NOT owned by a particular user and I am not …

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Find the path of notepad.exe and mspaint.exe

What is the best way to find out where notepad.exe and mspaint.exe are that will work across various …

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Look at each character in a string

I was wondering if anyone knew how to look through a string at each character and then add each character …

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Search in SVN repository for a file name

We have a bulk repository for code contain thousands of folder and sub folder, i want to search under this …

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How to reverse-i-search back and forth?

I use reverse-i-search often, and that's cool. Sometime though when pressing CTRL+r multiple times, I pass the command I …

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Can I do a MongoDB "starts with" query on an indexed subdocument field?

I'm trying to find documents where a field starts with a value. Table scans are disabled using notablescan. This works: …

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Exclude folders from Eclipse search

Is there a way to exclude certain folders (and all their subfolders) from searching within Eclipse?

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Beginner's guide to ElasticSearch

There hasn't been any books about ElasticSearch (that I know of), and http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/ seems to contain …

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first two results from ls command

I am using ls -l -t to get a list of files in a directory ordered by time. I would …

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How do you do a case insensitive search using a pattern modifier using less?

It seems like the only way to do this is to pass the -i parameter in when you initially run …

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