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| bio | website | keith-s-thompson.github.com |
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| location | San Diego, CA | |
| age | 53 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 8 months |
| seen | 12 hours ago | |
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I'm a programmer and all-around nerd living in San Diego, California and working at JetHead Development Inc.
E-mail: Keith.S.Thompson@gmail.com
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Apr 29 |
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Why is printf better than echo? I don't believe that applies to the printf command. It probably doesn't apply to the printf function, which has to spend time parsing the format string, |
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Apr 29 |
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Why is printf better than echo? Using echo to print a variable can fail if the value of the variable contains meta-characters. |
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Apr 18 |
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(Solved) Linux cdc_acm device - unexpected characters sent to USB device The way to mark a question as solved is to accept an answer by clicking the green check mark, not to edit the title. (Yes, it's perfectly ok to accept your own answer, though the system might impose a delay before letting you do so.) |
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Apr 18 |
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ls -ld /dir, Solaris Files "under" a directory are not contained in the directory; rather, the directory refers to the files. A directory is similar to an ordinary file. It contains an entry for each file "under" it, and that entry contains the file's name and some metadata, including a reference to the file's inode. The du command computes the sum of the sizes of the files under a given directory. |
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Apr 18 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Apr 18 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on What are the origins of rgb.txt? |
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Apr 17 |
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Is there any way to install freeBSD from Debian? Link to Debian wiki |
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Apr 17 |
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Command 'date +FORMAT' — What are %a, %A, %b, etc. called? added 378 characters in body |
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Apr 17 |
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Command 'date +FORMAT' — What are %a, %A, %b, etc. called? IBM didn't invent the date command; what makes their documentation authoritative? The command's behavior is currently defined by POSIX, which doesn't use that term. The change history at the bottom of the POSIX description says "The DESCRIPTION is updated to refer to conversion specifications, instead of field descriptors for consistency with the LC_TIME category.", implying that "conversion specification", not "field diescriptor" is the correct current term. See also my updated answer. |
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Apr 12 |
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Command 'date +FORMAT' — What are %a, %A, %b, etc. called? @TheoneManis: Any of the three seems sufficiently obvious about what it means. |
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Apr 12 |
answered | Command 'date +FORMAT' — What are %a, %A, %b, etc. called? |
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Mar 12 |
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Multi-line PATH in tcsh added 54 characters in body |
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Mar 12 |
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Multi-line PATH in tcsh @user815423426: Only if they have backslashes. I'll update my answer to demonstrate. |
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Mar 12 |
answered | Multi-line PATH in tcsh |
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Mar 4 |
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bash equivalent of this use of tcsh “sched” command? The expression ((SECONDS/86400)) will change at 24-hour intervals after the shell started, not at midnight; / is truncating integer division (and $SECONDS is the number of seconds since the shell started). |
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Feb 28 |
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Is shebang always the same as the interpreter's installation directory? The both work because both /usr/bin/python and /usr/local/bin/python are valid interpreters on your system. They may or may not be the same. |
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Feb 28 |
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Is shebang always the same as the interpreter's installation directory? Typo in title |
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Feb 28 |
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Is shebang always the same as the interpreter's installation directory? See also this question and my answer to it. |
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Feb 19 |
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How to merge a Windows 8 install with a Linux Mint, two different disks, same computer Which "this" are you referring to? |
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Jan 28 |
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OpenSSH - map aliases in ~/.ssh/config to IP addresses in command line Fix typo in title |
