Patrick

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System architect & Linux admin for cloud.com (Citrix).

We are looking for Linux admins and a white-hat security person in Fort Lauderdale. If you're interested send a message.

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May 17	awarded	Necromancer
May 10	awarded	Enlightened
May 10	awarded	Nice Answer
May 5	awarded	Custodian
May 5	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on Is it possible to make multi-level directory?
May 3	revised	Grep to search directories for patterns inside a text file Add `-r` option to satisfy the question's requirements.
May 3	comment	Grep to search directories for patterns inside a text file @dimas then add `-r` to the `grep`.
May 3	comment	Can I redirect output to a log file and background a process at the same time? Have you tried it? What error do you get? Also I'm not sure if you have a typo, or an error in your code. `2>$1` is probably supposed to be `2>&1`.
May 2	comment	Why could mount.cifs mount an empty folder? If he didn't have root permissions the `mount` command would throw an error.
May 1	answered	Finding all partitions with filesystems
May 1	comment	Redirecting stdin with stdout to file @derobert ah, didn't see that part. But in that case it's simple to just redirect from the file to STDIN. I'll add that to the answer. EDIT: actually that doesn't work like I expected it. Which actually has me quite surprised.
May 1	answered	Redirecting stdin with stdout to file
May 1	comment	How can I prevent 'grep' from showing up in ps results? There is also the `-l` argument to make it show the command that's being matched.
Apr 25	comment	Expand subshell before executing it? zsh can do this, but I'm fairly certain bash cannot. In zsh if you have your cursor on the parameter, and hit TAB, it'll expand it
Apr 24	awarded	Enlightened
Apr 24	awarded	Nice Answer
Apr 24	answered	List all my variables
Apr 21	comment	Get exit status of process that's piped to another @yael I don't use `ksh`, but from a brief glance at it's manpage, it doesn't support `$PIPESTATUS` or anything similar. It does support the `pipefail` option though.
Apr 21	answered	Get exit status of process that's piped to another
Apr 19	comment	Count number of lines of output from previous program @TheLibbster yes, according to some simple tests I just did, it's actually about twice as fast as both the `sed` and `awk` methods. (I `dd`d 100mb of `/dev/urandom` to a file and then ran that file through each method several times)