Top "Utility" questions

Utility software is system software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a computer.

Implement touch using Python?

touch is a Unix utility that sets the modification and access times of files to the current time of day. …

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Converting newline formatting from Mac to Windows

I need a conversion utility/script that will convert a .sql dump file generated on Mac to one readable on …

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Good tool for testing socket connections?

I'm writing a tcp/ip client and I would need a "test server" to be able to test easily. It …

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How can I create an utility class?

I want to create a class with utility methods, for example public class Util { public static void f (int i) {...} …

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Java: Static Class?

I have a class full of utility functions. Instantiating an instance of it makes no semantic sense, but I still …

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How to ensure thread safety of utility static method?

Is there any general way or rules exits by which we can ensure the thread safety of static methods specifically …

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How to change File and Folder permissions on Windows 7 using Command Line (CLI)?

I am trying to use chmod utility on windows command line but it does not work. I am looking for …

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Free alternative(s) to PowerGREP

First of all, great praise goes out to PowerGREP it's a great program. But it's not free. Some of it's …

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Java Utility Class vs. Service

What's the difference in Java between a utility class (a class with static methods) and a Service class (a class …

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Getting a device UDID from .mobileconfig

I'm trying to write function similar to http://whatismyudid.com/ that, then approved, will return the users UDID and store …

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