Why doesn’t “total” from ls -l add up to total file sizes listed? [closed]

You can find the definition of that line in the ls documentation for your platform. For coreutils ls (the one found on a lot of Linux systems), the information can be found via info coreutils ls: For each directory that is listed, preface the files with a line `total BLOCKS’, where BLOCKS is the total … Read more

How do I create a directory from within Emacs?

to create the directory dir/to/create, type: M-x make-directory RET dir/to/create RET to create directories dir/parent1/node and dir/parent2/node, type: M-! mkdir -p dir/parent{1,2}/node RET It assumes that Emacs’s inferior shell is bash/zsh or other compatible shell. or in a Dired mode + It doesn’t create nonexistent parent directories. Example: C-x d *.py RET ; shows python … Read more

How to create an alias for a command in Vim?

To leave completion untouched, try using cnoreabbrev W w It will replace W in command line with w, but only if it is neither followed nor preceded by word character, so :W<CR> will be replaced with :w<CR>, but :Write won’t. (Note that this affects any commands that match, including ones that you might not expect. For example, … Read more

How to locate the vimrc file used by Vim?

Just try doing the following: :version You will get an output which includes something like: system vimrc file: “$VIM/vimrc” user vimrc file: “$HOME/.vimrc” user exrc file: “$HOME/.exrc” system gvimrc file: “$VIM/gvimrc” user gvimrc file: “$HOME/.gvimrc” system menu file: “$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim” As noted by Herbert in comments, this is where vim looks for vimrcs, it doesn’t mean … Read more

Passing two command parameters using a WPF binding

Firstly, if you’re doing MVVM you would typically have this information available to your VM via separate properties bound from the view. That saves you having to pass any parameters at all to your commands. However, you could also multi-bind and use a converter to create the parameters: <Button Content=”Zoom” Command=”{Binding MyViewModel.ZoomCommand”> <Button.CommandParameter> <MultiBinding Converter=”{StaticResource … Read more

How do I read the source code of shell commands?

All these basic commands are part of the coreutils package. You can find all information you need here: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ If you want to download the latest source, you should use git: git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils To install git on your Ubuntu machine, you should use apt-get (git is not included in the standard Ubuntu installation): sudo … Read more

How to delete a folder and all contents using a bat file in windows?

@RD /S /Q “D:\PHP_Projects\testproject\Release\testfolder” Explanation: Removes (deletes) a directory. RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path /S Removes all directories and files in the specified directory in addition to the directory itself. Used to remove a directory tree. /Q Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S