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When we combine different CSV files using ‘cat’ command, the resulting CSV file contain repeating headers. This usually happens when we combine different CSV files having the same headers. Let us check a simple method to remove the repeating headers in Libre office - Calc document.

In Ubuntu, new applications are usually available as deb packages. Although Ubuntu comes packaged with gui package management tools like synaptic, the command line provides a much faster way. Read on to know how to manage deb packages in Ubuntu from the command line using apt-cache.

FSF-CiviCRM is a popular Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. The first step in getting started is understanding the CiviCRM codebase. For better understanding, please download CiviCRM zip file from https://civicrm.org/download and install.

We had just completed switching our site from Windows IIS MySQL PHP to LAMP environment. As the deployment was via git, we downloaded project files with the ftp credentials and deployed the site via git. However, the 'sites/default/files' folder were of some GBs in size. We only had ftp credentials and was unable to get a compressed copy due to certain reasons. What we did to resolve the problem was use wget command to copy files recursively.

Zyxware Technologies has developed and contributed CiviWCI (CiviCRM Widget Creation Interface) to the Free Software Foundation to assist in the fund raising campaign that FSF is launching in Dec 2014. The extension is expected to help FSF create “Donate Now” and “Join Now” widgets (fund raising and newsletter subscription) that can be embedded on any site that wishes to support FSF. This extension will replace the earlier widget system used by FSF. Through this contribution, Zyxware once again reaffirms its commitment to Free Software and the community around Free Software.

One of the requirements of the client was to play video in the pop-up window instead of playing it in Iframe. We accomplished this by adding overlay div over Iframe, which would suppress the ability of Iframe to play video. Read on to know how we did it.

Nmap(Network-mapper) is an open source tool that is pretty useful for networking scanning. This tool provides various options that are useful for carrying out security audits. Nmap is a powerful tool used to check the network inventory, host uptime etc. If you are a GNU/LINUX administrator, you may find the following 10 Nmap commands extremely useful Some of the useful Nmap commands are as mentioned below:

If you are using GNU/Linux, you are likely to be familiar with the command line, usually Bash, which of course means that you would be working with tar archives (tape archives). The need to extract a single file from a tar archive/file is a common situation faced by bash users. Read on to know how to do it.

One of our Drupal projects required the value of a text field to be changed according to the country selected in a particular select field. This is a common situation encountered by web developers when working on HTML. This can be easily achieved using jQuery. Read on to know more

Suppose you are working in OpenOffice Calc. Your requirement is to copy the Column B value into Column A, if Column A is blank. If the columns have lots of cells, filling it manually is extremely tedious. So, read on to know how to do it.