Following on from my old iPhone Copy and Paste blog. It looks like Copy & Paste will now function on the iPhone:
Cut and Paste for iPhone from Cali Lewis on Vimeo.
Author Archive for techpop admin
Easy enough to do and this method will return the result in Kilo Bytes (KB).
Just change directory to your MySQL folder where the databases are stored (the following is a common location):
cd /var/lib/mysql
and perform the command
du -sk *
Hey presto it will return a list of database names and a tab after it will have the size in KB.
You can access a specific user’s feed this way:
feed://www.youtube.com/rss/user/[YouTube-Username]/videos.rss
The iPhone as many owners will realize is lacking one core feature and that is to cut, copy and paste. You can do a lot of Google searching on this but you won’t come up with anything more than a lot of rubbish about “how a cut copy paste function might work”, really it is pointless, trust me, I have tried. The best thing all of us iPhone “testers” can hope for is an inclusion of the feature in an update.
Notice how I say that we’re testers? That’s right, there’s no way this lil sucker should be out of beta… But oh, wait it’s been released a few months before December holidays, coincidence, I think not.
The tar command is all you need to compress a directory for archiving and it does two things:
- It create the archive, and,
- It compress the archive
Usage of the tar command is as follows:
tar + switches + archive name + source directory
The switches really aren’t that complex, you pretty much always use -zcvf but just so you kow, here is an explanation of each switch:
- z: Compress archive using gzip program
- c: Create archive
- v: Verbose i.e display progress while creating archive
- f: Archive File name
For example, you have directory called /home/techpop/data and you would like to compress this directory then you can type tar command as follows:
tar -zcvf data-1-dec-2007.tar.gz /home/techpop/data
Above command will create an archive file called data-1-dec-2007.tar.gz in current directory.
That’s it - I’m sure you’ll agree that’s very straight forward. For more information about GNU tar software, check here.