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How to open line in $EDITOR while in python shell?
As a somewhat new user, I recently discovered the trick of opening the current terminal line in $EDITOR, using the hotkey C-x C-e. This has changed my life, and has made writing loops and such much ...
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Does Nautilius the file manager customizer allow one to right click and pass into a python function the file right clicked as argument without error?
I am working on creating a way to right click on an .eml file, right click, and have python pull two pieces of data from it and paste them into a new xlsx file and auto open the xlsx file.
I would try ...
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Run shellcode as root in a buffer overflow attack?
I'm trying to exploit the following code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv){
char buffer[100];
strcpy(buffer, argv[1]);
return 0;
}
with ...
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Write output of multiple python scripts to single file
I used to have only one Python script, the output of which would be directed to a log file.
It works like this: I have it in autostart, using crontab
@reboot /bin/sleep 30; sudo /usr/bin/python3 -u /...
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How to start a screen with crontab
sudo Crontab -e
15 0 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/screen -S wake_up -d -m /home/pi/auto/wake_up.py
But at 00:15 there is no screen started...
This command: (worked in terminal)
screen -S wake_up -d -m /home/pi/...
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Shell script that prompts user for arguments and inserts them as parameters into a python script
I am trying to write a shell script that prompts the user for 3 case-sensitive arguments
username
password
url
and then take those parameters and calls a python script
i.e.: "python streamcount....
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progress bar for general non-looping script, or using multiple processes to write to stdout
How do I make a spinning wheel or progress bar that measures the progress of a very general script and I don't need or want to run it over anything looping or iterable? It doesn't need to be anywhere ...
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How can I replace multiple substrings from multiple lines in a file matching a pattern from a different file?
I have a file that contains multiple IP addresses and hostnames, and another file that contains some folders with many IP addresses per line.
ip_hostname.txt
host1 10.1.1.1
host2 10.2.2.2
host3 10.3.3....
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Bulk replace multiple variables in multiple files at once
Example: I have 40 different variables like $VAR in 100 .txt files which are located in /home/user/EXAMPLE/. How do I replace all variables in the 100 files?
To tell the system what the variables are ...
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Creating a file based on output from a find -exec
I'm writing a shell script to batch validate (w3c validator) a load of HTML files.
I'm using https://github.com/mozilla/html5-lint which provides a python script to do the actual validation work.
The ...
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Using two variables to form a single text file
I am trying to create a text file with below content
user name is ${name}
and his mobile number is ${number}
I have 10 users and 10 mobile numbers as well. User names are saved in user.txt and the ...
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API call for JSON to variable using SHELL or Python
I have an API access to a url that looks a little like this:
curl https://api_url.com/device_groups/ -u api_key:
Which outputs in JSON:
{
"data":[
{
"type":"...
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My variable seems to change when passed into a CLI [duplicate]
I am attempting to use a java based program, CRFVoter, for text mining. I called and executed the script as specified.
[user]$ java -jar CRFVoter.jar
usage: CRFVoter GPRO
Command Line Tool for ...
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how to print file name and total number of fasta sequences?
I have a fasta file namely test.fasta, pas.fasta, cel.fasta as shown below
test.fasta
>tile
ATGTC
>259
TGAT
pas.fasta
>ta
ATGCT
cel.fasta
>787
TGTAG
>yog
TGTAT
>In
NNTAG
I need to ...
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Incrementally Swap Lines Between Two Regex Patterns in a File
I'm trying to do some text processing on a file using a bash script. The goal is to take all of the lines starting with "field:" indented under an 'attribute:' label and swap them with the ...
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