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Creating a single output stream out of three other streams produced in parallel

I have three kinds of data that are in different formats; for each data type, there is a Python script that transforms it into a single unified format. This Python script is slow and CPU-bound (to a ...
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How do I make python programs behave like proper unix tools?

I have a few Python scripts laying around, and I'm working on rewriting them. I have the same problem with all of them. It's not obvious to me how to write the programs so that they behave like ...
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Using CSV line as command parameters

I have a CSV file like: Name,Age,Address Daniel Dvorkin,28,Some Address St. 1234 (... N ...) Foo Bar,90,Other Address Av. 3210 And I have a command that take this parameters: ./mycommand ...
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command like wc but with tee behaviour

I want to backup a database using psql and COPY command. here is my script: psql "user=${USERNAME} host=${HOSTNAME} dbname=${DBNAME} password=${PASSWORD}" -c \ "COPY (SELECT * FROM tbl) ORDER BY id ...
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How can I print a conditional header BEFORE stdout, if there is any output on stdout

I have a process that filters a list of files from a directory (having find check to see if there are files older than a certain period to show a queue is stuck). It may or may not return anything, ...
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How to expand tabs based on content?

I've got some tab-delimited data coming out of a Unix pipe. I'd like to format this data into a compact human-readable table. How can I expand these tabs into spaces, and automatically set the tab ...