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Posts by tripleee‭

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Q&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 ty...

posted 1y ago by tripleee‭  ·  edited 1y ago by terdon‭

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Q&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 m...

posted 1y ago by tripleee‭  ·  edited 1y ago by tripleee‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 1y ago by tripleee‭

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Q&A Retrieve changes that closed a Debian bug

https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/p/poppler/poppler_22.12.0-2_changelog contains the changelog for this particular package. It should be obvious how to change to a different ve...

posted 1y ago by tripleee‭

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