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comment Bash while loop and reading from pipe
Awesome answer!
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comment Change numbers in the Number column to be consecutive from 0 for an mdadm RAID array
Ohh, someone who is as anal-retentive as me! Would also like to know the answer to this.
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comment Bash while loop and reading from pipe
It's running right now with I guess the standard buffer size of 64K and seems to work so far... I have 16 GB of memory on this box, so if it fails I will try your suggestion =)
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comment Bash while loop and reading from pipe
I'm not a Linux programming guru... when you say that the write blocks, does that mean that the kernel notes that the program is trying to write to a full stdout buffer, and will then suspend the thread and only wake it up once the pipe is no longer full?
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comment Bash while loop and reading from pipe
Ok, I've read the man page now, and it seems that the behavior depends on whether the O_NONBLOCK flag was set or not. I guess I will just run the script and see if it blows up.
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comment Bash while loop and reading from pipe
And what happens when the buffer is full?
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comment Bash while loop and reading from pipe
I don't want to be rude, but "RTFM" is the sort of response I'd expect on Slashdot. Granted, RTFM is probably an answer that works on most questions with zero effort required.
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comment Set tab indent in Emacs
Wow, yes that works. What was missing was the (magnus-minor-mode 1). I've tried it and it seems to be working with PHP, Python and Bash files so far. I shall evaluate further and wait for the phase of the moon to change before making my final judgement.
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accepted Set tab indent in Emacs
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comment Set tab indent in Emacs
Just inserted this in my .emacs and tried editing a PHP file. Pressing tab, it inserts eight spaces and when I press backspace it highlights the spaces with a blinking block (wtf?). So still no go. Then again, it is a full moon.
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asked Set tab indent in Emacs
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comment Ubuntu 12.04: Random freezes
kern.log and syslog contain nothing that helps, btw.
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asked Ubuntu 12.04: Random freezes
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accepted Get full path from within Bash script
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comment Get full path from within Bash script
Thanks jw, I'll try this. Probably I'll do "export SCRIPTDIR=/home/data" in my .bash_login
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comment Get full path from within Bash script
jw013: The reason I want to do it this way is because the entire directory hierarchy is backed up on multiple systems. So I use relative paths within the script, because it may be located in /home/data in one case or /raid/archive/data in another case.