Stephane Chazelas

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May 13	comment	“w \| tail” chops text at right margin (78 characters) @peterph, `COLUMNS=0` seems to work in 3.3.3 but not in 3.3.4. In 3.3.4 for me, any value greater than 512 causes a warning. Which is why I now suggest 512.
May 13	revised	“w \| tail” chops text at right margin (78 characters) added 2 characters in body
May 13	revised	“w \| tail” chops text at right margin (78 characters) added 205 characters in body
May 13	comment	“w \| tail” chops text at right margin (78 characters) @Razzlephrazz, yes, though that would affect other commands as well. Your problem is probably that you have too old a version of w to support overriding the width.
May 13	revised	“w \| tail” chops text at right margin (78 characters) added 130 characters in body
May 13	answered	“w \| tail” chops text at right margin (78 characters)
May 13	revised	Find and copy directories containing file type added 274 characters in body
May 13	revised	Find and copy directories containing file type added 24 characters in body
May 13	answered	Find and copy directories containing file type
May 13	comment	remove only the first blank line sed @peterph, Indeed, that's a new feature added in 4.2.2 (see commit log)
May 13	revised	remove only the first blank line sed added 247 characters in body
May 13	comment	remove only the first blank line sed @peterph, with `-u`, GNU sed will still read data by blocks (4k according to `strace` with `sed` 4.2.1, eglibc 2.13, Linux amd64) so it won't help here. I've clarified what I meant by buffering.
May 13	revised	remove only the first blank line sed clarify what I meant by "buffering"
May 12	comment	Linux/GParted can see partition table but dd bs=512 count=1 can't What's the output of `fdisk -lu /dev/sdb`, `gdisk -l /dev/sdb` and `grep sdb /proc/partitions`?
May 12	answered	Selecting/highlighting Text Problem
May 12	revised	sed + how to remove character/s that start or ended on each number extra requirements only found in comments.
May 12	comment	sed + how to remove character/s that start or ended on each number That's GNU syntax, the OP has a /solaris tag.
May 12	answered	sed + how to remove character/s that start or ended on each number
May 12	comment	How to check if the ISO was written to my USB stick without errors? USB is universal serial bus. Surely you mean some sort of device attached to that bus (like a flashdrive, ethernet or sound card)?
May 12	answered	Using mutt and not revealing IP address