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more »Command Line: Access Control chmod, chgrp, and chown
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more »Command Line: Mailx Mail at the command line
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more »Charly's Column The sys admin's daily grind: Nload
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more »Command Line: SSH SSH, SCP, and SFTP
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more »Shell Scripts in Waiting: the Waitmax Tool
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more »Hdparm Goes 8.1
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more »ImageMagick Image processing on the console
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