Ben Chuanlong Du's Blog

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Tips on Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tricks and Traps

  1. Use full paths of commands when you use a batch account or schedule a cron job. The reason is that batch account and/or cron might have different …

Tips on cURL and Wget

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

cURL vs Wget

curl vs wget has a detailed comparison between curl and wget. In short, curl is more powerful and flexible and thus is preferred to wget unless you want …

Tips on Conda

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. conda and executables installed by conda might not be able to run by sudo directly. If this happends, use the full path of the executable or add the option -E "PATH …

Tips on JupyterLab

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

General Tips

  1. You might lose data if you edit a notebook in multiple places (e.g., in different browsers or on different machines)! If you do have to work on the …