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I'm interested in computer programming.


Apr
15
asked Tool to convert between human-readable byte sizes and bare byte counts
Nov
29
comment Rsync — Itemized List of Changes
Thanks. The problem with this approach is that the output of -i doesn't just list the files that are to be transferred/synched, it also lists deletions. If you're running with the backup and backup-dir options, those deletions change to mv's. I suppose I could grep out just actual transfers and then handle deletes separately... I was kind of hoping for a more elegant solution that wouldn't involve me having to write my own wrapper scripts.
Nov
29
asked Rsync — Itemized List of Changes
Oct
31
comment Simulate keyboard input in bash OR stdin redirection where stdin remains visible
An equivalent question might be to ask if I can run such a program, detect if it happens to be waiting on input, and feed it a line from my file if it does (while printing the same line to the same output my program writes to).
Oct
31
asked Simulate keyboard input in bash OR stdin redirection where stdin remains visible
Oct
1
comment Reading character by character with bash read
Tried that with IFS='', but I guess it had to be just IFS=. Thanks!
Oct
1
accepted Backing Up to a Compressed Archive on Linux
Oct
1
awarded  Scholar
Oct
1
awarded  Supporter
Oct
1
accepted Reading character by character with bash read
Oct
1
comment Reading character by character with bash read
Thanks to both. Yeah, if i have to resort to getting those characters from lines, I might as well get them from the whole file. I find sch's solution the most KISS, though.
Oct
1
comment Reading character by character with bash read
Thanks. Simple and beautiful. I actually tried something to this end (modifying the IFS variable), but it kind of didn't work for me so I ended up with that concoction of mine (Unnecessary playing with file descriptors, etc.).
Oct
1
asked Reading character by character with bash read
Oct
1
comment Backing Up to a Compressed Archive on Linux
Thank you! That's exactly what I needed! (Though I was a bit disappointed to learn that tar with compression doesn't really do any sort of data deduplication first, but otherwise it's great for what I need! :))
Sep
21
awarded  Student
Sep
21
asked Backing Up to a Compressed Archive on Linux