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Edit Post #283940 Post edited:
Typo
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Edit Post #289442 Post edited:
Remove sudo; clarify last paragraph; fix some typos
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Suggested Edit Post #289442 Suggested edit:
Remove sudo; clarify last paragraph; fix some typos
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Comment Post #289332 https://askubuntu.com/a/172689 appears to contain some useful hints.
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9 months ago
Comment Post #289302 I don't think this is a supported use case. The agent needs to run as the user whose password it is, not as `root`; and the process which talks to the agent should share a parent process with it. (I don't know if these constraints are actively enforced, but working around them would be clunky at the ...
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Comment Post #289036 Of course, in the general case, also make sure the file is owned by your account.
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Comment Post #289070 In other words, without `-p`, the first token is interpreted as a line number, etc.
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Comment Post #289136 See also https://linux.codidact.com/posts/289135
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Comment Post #289136 Probably add details about your login manager, etc.
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Edit Post #288963 Post edited:
Link to cargo cult
10 months ago
Comment Post #289008 Do you have a file named `schedule.py` or some other local file which shadows a module name?
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Edit Post #288963 Post edited:
[[:space:]] fix, thanks terdon
10 months ago
Comment Post #288963 Thanks, I have updated this to suggest `[[:space:]]` instead. The `-e` stuff is based on my experience with MacOS `sed`, which is sometimes wacky with `-e`. (Not at my computer so can't provide a specific demo.)
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Edit Post #288999 Initial revision 10 months ago
Answer A: What unexpected things can happen if a user runs commands expecting a text file on input lacking a file-final newline?
I would consider your own tools as the central use case. Seriously, do you want to litter every `while read` (or your language's equivalent) with this pesky corner case handling? ``` while read -r line || [ -n "${line-}" ] do : something with "$line" done <"$inputfile" ``` Having a sin...
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Edit Post #288963 Post edited:
Multiple -e options
10 months ago
Comment Post #288962 (Also, what's `bat`? A common utility for displaying control characters etc is `cat -v`, though the only option for `cat` known to POSIX is `-u`, for unbuffered I/O.)
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10 months ago
Comment Post #288962 The use of a generator expression seems odd. You end up reading the whole file into memory anyway. Also, `b` seems redundant. Why not simply `for line in sys.stdin: print(line.strip())`?
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Edit Post #288963 Initial revision 10 months ago
Answer A: Simplest way of stripping leading/trailing whitespace from file or program output
The simple and obvious solution: ``` sed 's/^ //;s/ $//' ``` Many recipes you find online will erroneously add a `g` flag, but these regular expressions can only match once per line anyway. (In some more detail, `s/from/to/g` says to replace all occurrences of `from` on the current input l...
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Typo in title
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Comment Post #288849 My impression is that the Debian maintainers recommend switching to MariaDB. Are there scenarios where this is not acceptable?
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10 months ago
Comment Post #288436 The syntax `for item in $(command); do` is inherently broken if `command` could output items which contain spaces. There are ways to limit the damage by manipulating `IFS` but this construct is inherently brittle. See also https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/020
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Edit Post #288558 Initial revision 11 months ago
Answer A: Retrieve changes that closed a Debian bug
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/p/poppler/poppler22.12.0-2changelog contains the changelog for this particular package. It should be obvious how to change to a different version or a different package. For example, https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/e/emacs ...
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Edit Post #288556 Initial revision 11 months ago
Answer A: Adding Python 3.11 to `$PATH`
The usual way is to specify an installation location with ``` ./configure --prefix="$HOME/python" ``` ... and then `make install` after `make`. If you don't specify a `--prefix` argument to `configure`, it typically defaults to `/usr/local` (so `make install` will install `python` as `/usr...
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