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I have to question the usefulness of a code snippet site whose terms of use prohibit copying any of the code (“You may not distribute any information provided under the domain dostips.com in any form without express written permission of the domain owner.”).

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

2012-04-11 08:34:07 +00:00
Commented Apr 11, 2012 at 8:34
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I agree their terms are confusing, they also say "The information provided under the domain dostips.com is hopefully useful" so my assumption is that they are happy for people to copy the code to solve a problem. I'm not sure I have ever read any terms and conditions and been happy...

morechilli
– morechilli

2012-04-16 09:58:36 +00:00
Commented Apr 16, 2012 at 9:58
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This is great. I love answers that don't involve downloading something else to do it.

Ruairi O'Brien
– Ruairi O'Brien

2012-06-11 09:42:40 +00:00
Commented Jun 11, 2012 at 9:42
I also like solutions that don't involve external utilities, unfortunately, I keep getting "find: invalid predicate `'" when I try to run this batch. Don't really have the time to debug it right now.

James John McGuire 'Jahmic'
– James John McGuire 'Jahmic'

2013-07-27 08:09:56 +00:00
Commented Jul 27, 2013 at 8:09
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The "find: invalid predicate `'" error was due to an external 'find' utility on my system. Once removed, this worked fine.

James John McGuire 'Jahmic'
– James John McGuire 'Jahmic'

2013-07-27 08:40:29 +00:00
Commented Jul 27, 2013 at 8:40

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