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“mailcap application/msword antiword”

Mailcap file (usually /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap) is the file, which is used by many email clients. This file specifies how application, such as email client, should handle a certain type of file (usually attachment). If mailcap contains the line which looks like application/msword; antiword %s , then programs, which respect (either use) this file, will run program called antiword, giving it current file as a parameter. Antiword is a program which converts Microsoft Word files into plain text, therefor makes them readable without using any Graphical User Interface (GUI). Antiword can be downloaded from the site of it’s author.

“linux how to patch sample script”

Well, patching is simple. Consider the following scenario: we have a script file named script.pl to which we need to make changes, save them in the patch. We start by copying the original file to the working file with the command cp script.pl script-my.pl . Then we do whatever changes we want in file script-my.pl . Then we run a command diff -u script.pl script-my.pl > script-my.diff . At this time, file script-my.diff contains the changes that we made to the original script.pl . In case we want to distribute our changes to someone else, we just send them the script-my.diff file and those people need to run a single command like patch < script-my.diff to have a copy of the script.pl file identical to our script-my.pl . More information can be obtained from reading the Linux manual pages for diff and patch with commands man diff and man patch on any Linux system.

“leonid as a name”

According to this site, “Leonid” means “lion”. This site says that “LEONARD: From French form of Old German name meaning “bold as a lion.” Variants and diminutives include Lee, Len, Lenard, Lennard, Lennerd, Lennie, Lenny, Leo, Leon, Leonardo, Leonerd, Leonhard, Leonid, Leonidas, Leonides, Lonnard, and Lonny.”.