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I developed a process named X0 that continually appends some lines to a CSV file to register some electrical data as voltage or power. This process run a python program and is started using following ...
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I'm trying to run a bash script on all the xml files inside a folder. After some effort I found the likely bottleneck is reading the files, given the filenames. My script is likely running fast enough ...
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How can I locally open a read-only Maildir backup archive in Windows in order to browse through e-mails, run keyword searches, filter/sort by date or recipient, extract attachments, display e-mails ...
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I'm seeking guidance on how to implement restrictions in Adobe Acrobat for a PDF document. I have password-protected the file, but I'm looking to further restrict users from accessing the 'Save As' ...
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I have a file that contains a list of absolute paths of several files. I need to move all of the files listed in the file to another directory. Unfortunately, I have to do this using in-line shell ...
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I want to read a user's password securely within the execution of a curl command. A made a basic proof of concept which mostly works, but the output of the echo command is coming on the same line as ...
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This is a new HDD, but it looks like the read error rate is too high. It is higher than the threshold, but not sure if this a normal for a new HDD. Should I request for a replacement?
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The bash version in my system’s running version of Debian is: bash --version|awk 'NR==1' GNU bash, version 5.1.4(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) In Eyal Levin's answer on this other Stack Overflow ...
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I'm observing differences between zsh and bash when using read on macOS. With bash this script echo "characters" | while IFS= read -d '' -n 1 a; do printf %s "$a-"; done Produces ...
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Okay so I want to have the read and write permissions for users on a fileserver to be exported in CSV format. With the script below am not getting all of the subfolders on Powershell ISE Can someone ...
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I have a youtube-dl command that when run outputs two new lines, and I'm trying to capture each of those to variables. Here is what I have so far, but for some reason I can't understand, it only ...
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I have a postgres started like this: exec 3< <(su -l postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -p '$port' -d 3 -D '$backupDir' 2>&1 & echo \$!") This redirects all logs ...
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I have 3 files in a folder which are: XXX_a.txt XXX_b.txt XXX_c.txt The filename can be varied, only the last character of the 3 files a, b and c are not changed I need to rename the files as below: ...
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In Outlook (Office 365, desktop app) I sometimes receive an email with a read receipt request. My Outlook settings are such that Outlook always asks me if I want to answer that request. Sometimes I ...
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As far as i know that read in bash contains many argument such as -a -d -e -r. The webpage list all arguments of read. read's arguments In my console, man read contains no argument on it. I upload man ...
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