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The vi or vim is a console based text editor in Linux. It is probably the most useful of Linux applications, in that you can quickly view and edit the text files right at the command shell. When viewing the text files, one of the useful features is the ability to search for a word or some text in the file….
The robots.txt is a text file that resides in the top level folder on your webserver. The purpose of the robots.txt file (or just robots file) is to provide some guidance to search engine crawlers as to what should be crawled and indexed, and what content should not be crawled. The robots.txt file uses an exclusion standard, which means that you…
When creating content for your website or writing posts for your blog, there are mainly three things that you need to focus on. The first and foremost is probably the quality of the content. The next is the title of the page itself and then the slug (or URL) of the page. The title of the page is important for…
In Google Chrome, you can use the omnibar (the address or location bar) as your search box as well, instead of having a separate search bar or having to go to a website to perform a search. You have the option to assign one search engine as the default. You can also configure different search engines with a keyword or…
Google Chrome supports various different search engines. You can change default search engine to any these, which provides you with the ability to search from the address bar or omnibox directly. In addition to the preset search engines, Google Chrome also detects and collects search functions from the various websites that you search on. You will need to modify or change…
Sometimes it is not enough to search for files on your hard drive, but you want to search for files inside the file archives. One good example is when you have to find a particular java class by name inside some jar file. Now, we do not know which jar file contains this particular class, and there are several jar…
So, you saved some information in a file somewhere in your hard drive sometime back and cannot find the file anymore. You vaguely remember the file name but don’t know where it is, and obviously you have about 13247 file folders and thousands and thousands of files. The easiest way to find the file that you want is using one of the…
Many of us use Google search many times a day to find, scour and research anything and everything under the sun many a times a day. Here are a few easy tips to improve on those search queries without having to learn and remember any of the complex search syntax… 1) Fill in the blank with an asterisk (*) Using…
