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Get “date” to understand a timestamp phrase of a different language
My web-scraping scripts have long enjoyed using date -d to read in human-formatted time and date stamps like "March 11, 1999" and convert to any other format I need via the -s parameter.
How might I ...
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Why is bash extended-globbing variable substitution acting at the byte level?
I thought that bash variable substitution and globbing worked at character resolution, so I was rather surprised to see it acting at the byte level.
Everything in my locale is en_AU.UTF-8
When ...
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Weird Stuff in Terminal When I Hit Tab
For some reason, today, everytime I hit tab in the terminal this shows up:
cat bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_CA)
Display all 150 possibilities? (y or n)
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