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Oct
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comment Bash history with timestamps
Copied that HISTTIMEFORMAT='%b %d %I:%M:%S %p ' verbatim, still no luck. If I echo $HISTTIMEFORMAT it's the right value. This is interesting!
Oct
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Oct
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comment Bash history with timestamps
I most definitely did. It is doing "something": adding a commented line before the command with a numeric timestamp: #1349057149
Oct
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comment Bash history with timestamps
Nope, doesn't work on OSX.. :( Prob that's the issue. A strange OS.
Oct
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Oct
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comment Bash history with timestamps
Probably I am getting the strftime format wrong. It would help if the man page included at least a couple of examples.. +%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S ?
Oct
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asked Bash history with timestamps
Sep
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comment Quickly check whether many network hosts are up-and-running
@Serge: OSX man ping: developer.apple.com/library/mac#documentation/Darwin/Reference/…
Sep
27
comment Quickly check whether many network hosts are up-and-running
@Serge: sorry, fixed. BTW, on OSX -t is "Specify a timeout, in seconds, before ping exits regardless of how many packets have been received"
Sep
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Sep
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asked Quickly check whether many network hosts are up-and-running
Sep
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comment Am I using bash after this ordeal?
Nothing specifically, although this requires interactivity at the console? The question remains: if I su to root from my account, BASH_* variables are exported although I switch to sh. How to correctly detect the shell? $0? Other?
Sep
12
comment Am I using bash after this ordeal?
@Mat: I quote you "make sure it has the right #! line", that "making sure" doesn't do anything; as explained. The line is ignore as a comment. Try it.
Sep
12
comment Am I using bash after this ordeal?
@ire_and_curses: same problem with sudo -i; try echo ${!BASH*} to see the exported bash-specifics still visible as root...
Sep
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comment Am I using bash after this ordeal?
Careful @Mat! The #! line bears no correlation here as you are effectively source calling your script if you prepend bash explicitly! Try by entering #!/opt/local/bin/perl there and see. That line is only checked when chmod +x executing the file!
Sep
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asked Am I using bash after this ordeal?
Sep
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comment Bash function to compare two binary files
@Gilles: I did not know about fdupes! Thanks for the pointer!
Sep
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Sep
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comment Bash function to compare two binary files
Interesting. Well, I learned something today! Thanks! BTW, @Stabledog, md5 is because I may want to look for duplicates in a dir tree so I need to keep track of the hashes as I go along to detect pairs to go back to and bit-by-bit scan... Does it make sense?