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Syncany - An open-source file synchronization and filesharing application

Syncany - An open-source file synchronization and filesharing application

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Unison File Synchronizer Unison is a file-synchronization tool for OSX, Unix, and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Unison shares a number of features with tools such as configuration management packages (CVS, PRCS, Subversion, BitKeeper, etc.), distributed filesystems (Coda, etc.), uni-directional mirroring utilities (rsync, etc.), and other synchronizers (Intellisync, Reconcile, etc).

HowTo Format Date For Display or Use In a Shell Script byVivek GiteonFebruary 27, 2007 last updated March 31, 2016 How do I format the date to display on the screen on for my shell scripts as per my requirements on Linux or Unix like operating systems? You need to use the standard date command to format date or time. You can use the same command with the shell script. Syntax

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Removing an object on a photo with GIMP Tutorial to remove objects (or people) and restore the portion of the background they hide in a photo with the Resynthesizer plugin. An impressive video has been posted on Youtube to show how, with Photoshop, it is possible to delete objects in an image automatically, without any design work. The same can be done with The Gimp in fact and for longer (it is not impossible that the same algorithm has been reused). This plugin "re-synthesizes" the background" and rebuilds it from same elements on the photo. It can thus reconstruct the sky, lawn, or even more complex views, from a sample taken from the image.

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