What is the difference between echo hello &gt; a.txt and echo hello &gt;&gt; a.txt. It is doing the same thing, why should we use &gt;&gt; instead of &gt;? And what does &lt; do?
I often see tutorials online that connect various commands with different symbols. For example:  command1 |  command2 command1 &amp;  command2 command1 || command2     command1 &amp;&amp; command2   Others seem to be connecting commands to files:  command1  &gt; file1 command1  &gt;&gt; file1   What are these things? What are they called? What do they do? Are there more of them?    .
Missing vertices in Edit Mode Should I wait for a recession to buy a home? I am currently renting, but am considering buying a house in the future (1-3 years). I want to know if I should even consider waiting for a future recession to buy a home at a better price. Some would argue that we are due for a recession (seems common enough to not need a reference), though none of us can know this is imminent with certainty.   I would not mind waiting to buy if it means my money would go further. However, if I wait and the market does not come down, I risk the inverse as the cost of homes in my area is rising faster than inflation.  All other considerations aside, should I wait for a recession to buy a home and what other risks does this carry? We can easily find out if the vectors are dependent or not by finding determinant of matrices formed from the vectors. But if the matrix is not a square matrix, we cannot find the determinant. Then how do we know if the vectors are linearly independent? Why is ATP the preferred choice for energy carriers? Why is ATP the most prevalent form of chemical energy storage and utilization in most cells? I have QGIS 1.8.0 installed via OSGeo Installer and work on win 7. All I need is to upload the shapefile to the database via this plugin. Unfortunately I am receiving an error:  Something's wrong: ["'shp2pgsql' is not recognized as an internal or external command,\n", 'operable program or batch file.\n']   How to install and configure shp2pgsql to make this plugin work fine? After installing fedora and Centos and other OS now I have them all showing in my Boot menu [F2] on start up not the menu form the OS even after deleting them and reinstaling other OS - Ubuntu -so It just shows one when the OS starts but when I go to UEFI setting I still find all the old ones they instruct you to use DEL to take them out but that does not work Minimum bounty on a question is now 100 rep? How do I compare binary files in Linux? I need to compare two binary files and get the output in the form:  &lt;fileoffset-hex> &lt;file1-byte-hex> &lt;file2-byte-hex>  for every different byte. So if file1.bin is    00 90 00 11   in binary form and file2.bin is    00 91 00 10   I want to get something like    00000001 90 91   00000003 11 10   Is there a way to do this in Linux? I know about cmp -l but it uses a decimal system for offsets and octal for bytes which I would like to avoid. Does Windows use the fastest drive for the page file? Suppose I have a 6 GB page file on an SSD and another 6 GB page file on a traditional mechanical 5400rpm SATA drive.  Does Windows take into account the difference in the performance characteristics between the two drives when deciding which page file to use?  If it matters, I'm asking about Windows 7 and higher.  I reviewed this  but it doesn't appear to factor in the case of dissimilar storage speeds. How to assign same Data to multiple object copies I made many copies of an object, then I thought it would've been better if I made them to share the same Data (being an instance of the same original object), I know how to do it one by one, is there a way to do it for all of them at once? I tried Copy Attribute add-on but didn't find what option can do that, or even if this is possible in the first place. Books for Hyperbolic Geometry. I want to read hyperbolic geometry. Can any one suggest some good books on the topic. What about lowering the edit character limit for characters in code snippets? , to correct a misspelled library enum in an answer. Since the edit was only one character, I also had to add a superfluous sentence to get over the character limit required to edit a post.  I've hit this problem before in other edits, always in code snippets. Since the edit limit exists to prevent trivial edits, and since there are many cases where one character code edits are not trivial (= to == etc), would it make sense to have a lower edit minimum inside code snippets? Since one or two months ago, my laptop with ubuntu 12.10x64 hangs during shutdown. There's just a black screen, no harddisk activity, it justs sits there. I feel it happens near the end of a normal shutdown cycle, judging from time elapsed.  Only resolution is hard power-off (holding power key for several seconds) - neither Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (which normally works, I have it switched on in Settings) nor Ctrl-Alt-Del help, nor can I get into a text console with Ctrl-Alt-F1.   How do I diagnose that? It does not happen on every shutdown, but often enough to be annoying (as it forces a diskcheck on reboot, of course).   Which log files can tell me what's going wrong? More or less blindly searching in the sys log viewer reminds me of needles in a haystack.  I imagine I could pinpoint the time it happens via log timestamps, but how do I read timestamps like e.g. in kern.log: [36169.146130]? How do I get this human-readable?  Lastly, a bit of a btw, I've never managed to execute an Alt-Sysrq-REISUB to force a cleaner shutdown, but that's probably because I'm on a laptop, PrintScr is only accessible via an Fn key, and I'm not sure of the exact key sequence I need. Is there a "harmless" but user-visible magic command I could practice this with (during normal operation), so I can find out how to do a REISUB next time?  Thanks all! Comment if you need additional data... Is there anybody who can help me show the following?      $$ \sum_{x=0}^{n-1} \cos\left(k +x{2\pi\over n}\right) =0  \qquad\hbox{and}\qquad  \sum_{x=0}^{n-1} \sin\left(k +x{2\pi\over n}\right) =0 $$   I can only prove this claim for the sine expression when $k=0$, by grouping the output values such that they all cancel out (for both $n$ even and odd). I have thought about using complex numbers in exponential form to prove it, but I can't do it ... :P   I would really appreciate an algerbraic proof. How can Obito use his Mangekyo so often? Non-Root Package Managers From my research, I seem to notice that all package managers insist on being used as a privileged user and must be installed into /.  Typically, what I like to do is create a throwaway account, compile some software, and install to $HOME for that account. I can try a variety of setups and then when I'm done, just destroy the account.  However, compiling software becomes tedious.  My experience is really just limited to yum, but I don't understand why I wouldn't be able to drop a repo file into ~/etc/yum.repos.d and have yum install everything into a home account.  Is there any reason why package managers must be used as a privleged user to install software? Showing $\gcd(2^m-1,2^n+1)=1$ I go to the Minecraft menu and click on singleplayer to test out the 1.9 update. I made a new world (no mods), it said downloading terrain and then it crashes every time (I've tried about 20 times now).  Has anyone else experienced similar issues and know what the fix may be?  Here is the launcher log:  Completely ignored arguments: [--nativeLauncherVersion, 301] [00:35:12] [Client thread/INFO]: Setting user: Teddy_Cromwell [00:35:12] [Client thread/INFO]: (Session ID is &lt;censored&gt;) [00:35:14] [Client thread/INFO]: LWJGL Version: 2.9.4 [00:35:14] [Client thread/WARN]: Removed selected resource pack resources (no region and battle music).zip because it's no longer compatible [00:35:14] [Client thread/INFO]: Reloading ResourceManager: Default [00:35:15] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Starting up SoundSystem... [00:35:16] [Thread-5/INFO]: Initializing LWJGL OpenAL [00:35:16] [Thread-5/INFO]: (The LWJGL binding of OpenAL.  For more information, see http://www.lwjgl.org) [00:35:16] [Thread-5/INFO]: OpenAL initialized. [00:35:16] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Sound engine started [00:35:18] [Client thread/INFO]: Created: 1024x512 textures-atlas [00:35:26] [Server thread/INFO]: Starting integrated minecraft server version 1.9 [00:35:26] [Server thread/INFO]: Generating keypair [00:35:27] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing start region for level 0 [00:35:28] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 5% [00:35:29] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 8% [00:35:30] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 15% [00:35:31] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 21% [00:35:32] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 27% [00:35:33] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 34% [00:35:34] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 42% [00:35:35] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 48% [00:35:36] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 56% [00:35:37] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 66% [00:35:38] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 74% [00:35:39] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 81% [00:35:40] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 91% [00:35:41] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 98% [00:35:42] [Server thread/INFO]: Teddy_Cromwell[local:E:6d7525a7] logged in with entity id 301 at (244.5, 69.0, 244.5) [00:35:42] [Server thread/INFO]: Teddy_Cromwell joined the game # # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: # #  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x00007fffcf6e6b37, pid=15456, tid=12424 # # JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_25-b18) (build 1.8.0_25-b18) # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.25-b02 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops) # Problematic frame: # C  [ig8icd64.dll+0x16b37] # # Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows # # An error report file with more information is saved as: # C:\Users\Connor\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\hs_err_pid15456.log # # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit: #   http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp # The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code. # See problematic frame for where to report the bug. # AL lib: (EE) alc_cleanup: 1 device not closed Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Using incremental CMS is deprecated and will likely be removed in a future release How are embedded quotations used? How would embedded quotations be used when quoting from passages/sources within an essay? What would be the difference between normal quotations and embedded quotations? In case of shell-builtins (eg type itself):  $ type type type is a shell builtin  $ which type &lt;Doesn't return anything since it's a shell builtin, silently exits&gt;   In case of commands (normally) (eg python):  $ type python python is /usr/bin/python  $ which python /usr/bin/python   In case of which (which is a command located at /usr/bin/which)  $ type which which is hashed (/usr/bin/which) $ which which /usr/bin/which   Why does type which say that which is hashed? What is the significance of which being hashed and what does it actually mean?