Ownership Of Unix Copyright Headed to Trial


Linux

A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a judge erred in August 2007 by granting the copyright to Novell. The panel ordered a trial to determine ownership.
Novell, a software and computer infrastructure company, has been locked in a yearslong legal battle with The SCO Group Inc. of Lindon, Utah, [...]

Capitalize the First Letter of Every Word – Sh Script


Linux

Linux has powerful text conversion programs built in. Proper name and article title are a few examples of words that should have the first letter capitalized. If this needs to be done with large volumes of text, a shell script can save time.

phrase=”text to be converted here“;
capitals=$(for i in $phrase; do convert=`echo -n “${i:0:1}” [...]

Search for a File in Linux


Linux

Locating any file on a linux operating system can be done quickly from the command line.
Step 1
Index your file system with updatedb. This makes a list of files so that later searches won’t have to look in the entire span of directories each time. The process can later be added to a cronjob and happen [...]