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Is it common to include a specific build of a library/ tool for production level project?
Is it common to include a specific build of a library/ tool for production level project?
I would say it is at least not totally uncommon, and it depends on how you define "production level". But if ...
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commonly used practices for deploying package primarily composed of bash scripts
Like what are the best practices to deploy software with many bash scripts?
Given you refer to /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin, I'm assuming you're on some kind of Unix-ish machine - there, the ...
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Ken thompson's compiler hack
No. The source code is not usable since it cannot be executed, only machine code can be executed. And to transform it into a binary you need a compiler. But you have no assurance that the compiler you ...
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Using sed/awk to bulk generate static HTML pages off of a template
Yes, you can do that. No, it is not a good idea.
This is roughly how some websites worked in the 90s. That these approaches are problematic has nothing to do with their age, and everything to do with ...
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commonly used practices for deploying package primarily composed of bash scripts
Traditionally (the slackware way) the userland scripts would exist in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin along with any binaries. By convention, it's reserved for local administrator/software, so you'...
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Local Path on Linux
According to this answer:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/316765/which-distributions-have-home-local-bin-in-path
There is a:
~/.local/bin/
Executables that shall appear in the user's $PATH ...
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Why terminals only allow character-cell displays
It worth noting that the X Window system, which is still used as GUI for linux, was just designed as solution for letting programs show graphics remotely. So it is basically the graphical terminal you ...
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What is the exact ingenuity of Unix pipe
The genius of Pipes is that it combines three important ideas.
First, pipes are a practical implementation of 'co-routines', a term coined by Conway in 1958 which was promising but saw little ...
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