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Read more »Using Strings To Safely Get Program Usage Information On Linux And Unix
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How to find out what options a command takes, and what it does, when you have no clue what it's used for and don't want to make a huge mess!
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Weekly tip: killing processes
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One of the things I hate about Windows is that there is no good way to kill frozen processes. Theoretically, you type Ctrl-Alt-Delete, wait for Task Manager to pop up, and kill the process. But in reality, the process doesn't always die immediately (it usually takes multiple tries and a very long time). GNU/Linux users don't have this problem.
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